Re: ISO images of NetBSD 7 or later are bootable on real Mac hardware?

[Ryo ONODERA <ryo%tetera.org@localhost>]

Hi,

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>, Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 19:51:44 +0900

>> I am try to use pkgsrc/emulators/pearpc and qemu-system-ppc from
>> pkgsrc/emulators/qemu with NetBSD/macppc 7.
>> However ISO image format of NetBSD/macppc 7 is different from
>> before 7.
>  :
>> With real PowerPC Mac hardware, CD-R created with NetBSD 7's ISO file is
>> bootable?
> 
> AFAIK, ISO images for mac68k and macppc in official releases are
> built using a special build method, not by build.sh iso-image.
> (I guess ISO images in daily builds are built by build.sh)
> 
> mac68k requires HFS partition, and macppc machines with
> OpenFirmware 1.x and 2.x requires Apple Partition map data,
> so they are built by tools (including third party mkisofs)
> in src/distrib/cdrom.
>  http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/distrib/cdrom/
> 
> Probably you can build images by 
> $ sh build.sh -U -m macppc release
> $ cd distrib/cdrom
>  (prepare 7.1.2.conf and NetBSD-7.1.2.conf)
> $ make
> etc. (IIRC it also requires rsync etc)

Thanks for your explanation.
I will create my custom ISO image for testing.

> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui

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