Re: Dualboot Mac OS X and NetBSD on Power Mac?

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Chris Ross wrote:

>  I have a quad-core Power Mac G5 that I'm thinking about pushing  
> into a server-class machine in the closet at some point over the  
> next year.  But, for now, it's still my primary desktop machine.   
> So, I have two main questions:
>
>  1) Does NetBSD/macppc run (well?) on this hardware?

No.

>  2) Is there a way to dual-boot Mac OS X and NetBSD, so that I could  
> install/test NetBSD while still being able to get back to my stable  
> and familiar OS X installation?

Sure. It's a bit hairy but nothing keeps you from having more than one  
operating system installed. NetBSD can even live in an APPLE_UFS  
partition although journaling won't work with that.
Since OF3 doesn't need any settings changed the only difference  
between booting OSX and NetBSD is the actual boot command, I left the  
OSX settings active on my G4, only set auto-boot? to false, that way  
'boot' starts OSX ( I left it like that because I can never remember  
the right voodoo to boot OSX ) and NetBSD needs parameters ( which I  
have no trouble memorizing and I need to boot different development  
kernels all the time anyway ). You can store them as a custom command  
in nvram but so far I've been too lazy to do that myself.

have fun
Michael

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