On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, John Klos wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> I have a number of older macppc machines which are colocated and out of 
> reach. One of them I recently swapped into my New York location (I'm in Los 
> Angeles). However, I seem to have made a booboo and I need some help figuring 
> out how to fix it.
>
> Many machines, such as the iMac G3, have IDE controllers which can do LBA48, 
> but the Open Firmware on them doesn't support it, so we end up with a system 
> which can run NetBSD on any size drive, but can only boot from the first 128 
> gigs.
>
> My New York system has a 750 gig drive with an HFS+ partition on which 
> there's a NetBSD install kernel and ofwboot.xcf. I set it up to boot from the 
> NetBSD partition, /, which is the rest of the 750 gig (besides the HFS+ 
> partition and swap), and it worked. However, when I tried to update the 
> kernel recently, the system wouldn't boot past the bootloader.
>
> So... Is there any way that anyone knows to either read and write HFS+ from 
> NetBSD (to put the new kernel on there - and it can't be a solution which 
> requires a new kernel)?
>
> Or is there any way to write a file and have the system write it somewhere 
> specifically so as to make sure it's somewhere in the first 128 gigs of the 
> drive?

 	If you have very limited remote hands one fallback might be to
 	post a bootable CD with a kernel configured with root on wd0 &
 	get someone to put it in (obviously rewriting the kernel on
 	the disk is first choice... but as a backup...)

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