Subject: Some original iMac issues
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/28/2004 10:22:44
Hi,
I'm seeing some strangeness with my new iMac motherboard which is running
2.0.
My disk looks like this:
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/wd0c'
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_HFS hfsroot 131072 @ 64 ( 64.0M)
3: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 bsdroot 233195288 @ 131136 (111.2G) S0 RUFS k0 /
4: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 bsdswap 1048576 @ 233326424 (512.0M) S1 SFS k0 (swap)
I've set boot-device to hd:,ofwboot.xcf, boot-file to netbsd, and
auto-boot? to true.
However, when it boots I just get the OF command prompt; when I type
"boot", I get "Can't OPEN".
If I type "boot hd:,ofwboot.xcf", it boots the netbsd kernel which is on
the HFS partition. I cannot use "boot hd:,ofwboot.xcf hd:3,/netbsd" and
have it boot the kernel which is on the FFS partition - is this because
it's an FFSv2 filesystem? Even when I try this, it doesn't give an error
but still boots the kernel from the HFS partition... strange...
Also, about half of the boots leave me with a keyboard that has the caps
lock light on and which is otherwise unresponsive.
Any ideas? Suggestions? Since I want to colocate this machine, it'd be
nice if I could get it to autoboot!
Thanks,
John Klos