On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:31:20 +0100 Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I feel a bit stupid and could use use some help: > > I have a powermac G4 but not the original apple keyboard for it. IIUC the > keyboard has the "open cd drive" key and I found not way to open the drive > w/o that (even OF doesn't seem to have a command for it). I would try booting > from that drive, but since I fail to insert the CD in the first place, this > is unlikely to work. Is there a OS X command to force it open? In OF, `eject cd` is supposed to open/close the tray. IIRC, in MacOS X the F12 key is mapped to open/close tray, but if overloaded with other functions it will require that you press and hold it to get to the drive control. > Now, since the easy way did not work, I tried netbooting the machine and > seem to be running into the same issues der Mouse described here: > > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2009/04/05/msg000652.html > > I can load ofwboot.xcf just fine via tftp, but it fails to do it's dhcp > dance: > BOOTP/BSDP failed: no FILENAME specifiedopen /netbsd: Device not configured [...] I ran into all of that, too. The only thing I got to work was directly loading the (install) kernel via tftp. The install kernel includes sufficient tools to mount additional resources via nfs and prep a drive for NetBSD.
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