Subject: Re: OpenFirmware 3 Boot Problem
To: NetBSD macppc <port-macppc@NetBSD.org>
From: Daniel Eggert <danieleggert@mac.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/23/2005 19:39:58
If I run
hd:2,ofwboot.xcf hd:3,/netbsd
OF says:
MAC-PARTS: bad partition can=B4t OPEN hd:2,ofwboot.xcf
Can=B4t open device or file
When I mount the disk on another mac (Target disk mode) and run pdisk,=20=
I get this output:
% ./pdisk /dev/disk2
2 not HFS
Edit /dev/disk2 -
Command (? for help): P
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/disk2'
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Boot 112640 @ 64 ( 55.0M)
3: Apple_Boot eXternal booter 17408 @ 112704 ( 8.5M)
4: Apple_UFS NetBSD_root 1031168 @ 130112 (503.5M)
5: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 NetBSD_swap 4194304 @ 1161280 ( =20
2.0G) S1 SFS k0 (swap)
6: Apple_Boot eXternal booter 17408 @ 5355584 ( 8.5M)
7: Apple_UFS NetBSD_usr 72767168 @ 5372992 ( 34.7G)
Device block size=3D512, Number of Blocks=3D78140160 (37.3G)
DeviceType=3D0x0, DeviceId=3D0x0
So maybe the boot command should be
hd:2,ofwboot.xcf hd:4,/netbsd
But that gives the same error.
/Daniel
On Feb 23, 2005, at 7:10 PM, Michael wrote:
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>> "hd:1" should be "Apple_Partition_Map", so:
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>> boot hd:2,ofwboot.xcf hd:3,/netbsd
> Or just hd:,ofwboot.xcf - in this case OF will pick the first=20
> partition it can read which should be the HFS+ one.
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> have fun
> Michael
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