Subject: Re: More on B&W G3 and booting...
To: Mark & Suzanne <gcs@s054.aone.net.au>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/27/1999 18:37:39
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Mark & Suzanne wrote:
> Hi All,
> You probably saw my other post where I was chasing down ofwboot.elf - I
> now find that its not necessary in that my iMac boots from enet:0 however
> the B&W G3 400Mhz 256Mb ram does not it will boot small elf images but
> chokes on netbsd. Anyway so I decide to try the iMac and sure enough boots
> from the enet installs, nfs mounts from DU ok, everything installed but
> can't boot from the new ide drive.
How much memory is in the iMac? I think 256 MB is the max that macppc can
support at the moment.
> The boot device is a 2G IDE disk.
> 0 > boot hd:0,0 DISK-LABEL: LOAD (noninterposed) not supportedload-size-0
> adler32=1
>
>
> LOAD-SIZE is too small
> ok
> 0 >
>
> 0 > boot hd:1,0 MAC-PARTS: specified partition is not valid
> can't OPEN: hd:1,0
> ok
> 0 >
>
> So that looks like it finds the partition ok.
> I can reboot from the ethernet and mount /dev/wd0a and /dev/wd0g as / and
> /usr so the labels ok from netbsd perspective. I've tried doing
> /usr/mdec/installboot -v ofwboot bootxx /dev/rwd0a
Try
/usr/mdec/installboot -v bootxx /dev/rwd0a - you showed one too many
files above.
> but this seems to make no difference
>
> What have I missed ? or What am I doing wrong ?
>
>
> Mark :)
>
> ps.
> My intention is to build a bootable netbsd disk on the imac and move it
> to the B&W
Should be fine.
Take care,
Bill
p.s. I put a copy of ofwboot.elf on
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/wrstuden/ofwboot.elf