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I seem to be faced with the following issue:

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#nodisk

As the subject of this message indicates, I've got a Powerbook G4/1GHz
(with 512MB RAM and 60GB) and I'm attempting to install NetBSD/macppc
(1.6.2) on it.  Here are my partitions (created with OSX Panther pdisk):

/dev/disk0  map block size=512
   #:                 type name                  length   base      ( size )
   1:  Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1        
   2:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                 2097152 @ 64        (  1.0G)
   3:            Apple_HFS MacOS               31457280 @ 2097216   ( 15.0G)
   4:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 NetBSD_root              256 @ 33554496 
   5:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 NetBSD_var               256 @ 33554752 
   6:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 NetBSD_usr          15728640 @ 33555008  (  7.5G)
   7:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 OpenBSD_root             256 @ 49283648 
   8:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 OpenBSD_var              256 @ 49283904 
   9:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 OpenBSD_usr         15728640 @ 49284160  (  7.5G)
  10:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Linux_root               256 @ 65012800 
  11:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Linux_var                256 @ 65013056 
  12:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Linux_usr           15728640 @ 65013312  (  7.5G)
  13:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 OpenDarwin          15728640 @ 80741952  (  7.5G)
  14:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Hack                15728640 @ 96470592  (  7.5G)
  15:            Apple_HFS local_shared         5011008 @ 112199232 (  2.4G)

OSX is running happily on disk0s3.  Watching the boot messages from my
NetBSD CD shows that it detects wdc0, but not the HDD (just the CD as
cd0).  Gentoo Linux seems to detect it just fine (as hda) as does
OpenDarwin (disk0), though I've yet to attempt an install of either OS.
I've also yet to attempt 2.0-BETA or OpenBSD.

Will 2.0-BETA improve the chances of my HDD being detected?  How about
the latest multi-boot CD?

It's possible that I am being bit by the issue described in the FAQ, but
before I go tearing into my Powerbook and possibly voiding my AppleCare,
I'd be very interested to know if anyone with the same model of
Powerbook has had any success in getting NetBSD/macppc to run on it and
what steps they had to take in order to get it to install.

Cheers!

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Anthony Chavez                             http://www.anthonychavez.org/
mailto:acc@anthonychavez.org         jabber:acc@jabber.anthonychavez.org
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