Hello, On 2020-03-31 3:21 p.m., Martin Husemann wrote:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 03:14:15PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:# pdisk -l /dev/rwd0c Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/rwd0c' #: type name length base (size) 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 2 @ 1 2: NetBSD/macppc NetBSD 2147483647 @ 4 (1024.0G) Device_block size=512, Number of Blocks=156301488 (74.5G) DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 It appears the Apple partition map is quite small.Yeah, it is a dummy, enough to hold the bootloader. From the above I would expect something like boot hd:1 to work - but maybe the bootloader did not get installed? (I tried to create a new bootable disk earlier when working on the installer, but never managed to get it working, neither with the old netbsd-8 sysinst nor my hacked new version - will revisit it sometime) Can you also show the output of disklabel wd0 ? You should be able to mount the NetBSD root partition from the install CD and verify it has /ofwboot. Also something like: installboot /dev/rwd0c /usr/mdec/bootxx /ofwboot should install the bootloader. You do not need ofwboot.xcf if you are booting w/o HFS partition. Martin
Hi Martin, Here is the command result: # disklabel wd0 # /dev/rwd0: type: unknown disk: ESDI/IDE disk label: ST980815A flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 16 sectors/cylinder: 1008 cylinders: 155061 total sectors: 156301488 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 #microseconds track-to-track seek: 0 #microseconds drivedata: 0 3 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs] a: 156037280 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 154798*) b: 262144 156037312 swap # (Cyl. 154798*- 155058*) c: 156301488 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 155060) I find the "unused" partition curious (letter "c"). I took the default partition option when I ran the install disk. Here's the result of the other command you suggested: # installboot /dev/rwd0c /usr/mdec/bootxx /ofwboot installboot: Could not find secondary bootstrap 'ofwboot' in '/dev/rwd0c' installboot: (Path must be relative to the file system in '/dev/rwd0c') installboot: Set bootstrap operation failed. "boot hd:1" didn't work: 0> boot hd:1 MAC-PARTS: LOAD (noninterposed) not supportedload-size=0 adler32=1 LOAD-SIZE is too small Anyway, I certainly appreciate your feedback. Hopefully soon I can figure this out. Mark