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RE: me too: invalid memory access early in boot, and macppc partitioning woes



Another sympton I had was sometimes trying
to create a partition would say the map was too small.
I'd try the "s" command to grow it, but it wouldn't go beyond 2 entries.
All very frustrating.

 - Jay



From: jay.krell%cornell.edu@localhost
To: port-macppc%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: RE: me too: invalid memory access early in boot, and macppc partitioning woes
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 12:34:44 +0000

I second machine I tried has the same problem.
A third older machine, 500MHz iBook G3 gets past this every time.
However something(s) are very off with macppc partitioning.
I fiddled with it for hours and no luck.
I've installed all of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD many times.
  Always from optical media, granted, except for Linux and OpenBSD upgrades.
  That's just to establish my "medium" skill set.


I tried three different methods:
  NetBSD pdisk
  NetBSD fdisk (I know that's wierd, but I have OpenBSD using
    MBR on macppc and it seems the easiest to get to boot).
  MacOSX 10.2 Disk Utility


One mistake I did make repeatedly is using /dev/wd0a instead of /dev/wd0c.
Some of the problems I see, with "a" and/or "c":
  Lots of read errors starting up pdisk.
  pdisk's "i" command always fails with "device is busy" when it goes to write
  I often get, NOT due to my own editing, but somehow junk labels with
   a bunch of overlap, that disklabel won't write due to the overlap.
  If I just have disklabel attempt to write back what it initially read,
   I get the error that the disklabel checksum or such is out of date, and
   it doesn't get written.

It /seems/ that NetBSD blows away anything I do with Apple Disk Utility.

I have gotten setup to proceed all the way through, but I can never boot the result.
I tried creating 100MB HFS and the rest UFS with the Apple utility, but NetBSD sysinst
seems to remove the HFS partition.

I thought I had easily installed NetBSD/macppc years ago, an older versions, but I'm not sure.
Lately I only have tried 5.0.1 (I don't want to use a system without $RPATH support.)


 - Jay



From: jay.krell%cornell.edu@localhost
To: port-macppc%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: me too: invalid memory access early in boot
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:40:50 +0000

NetBSD 5.0.1 macppc

boot cd:,ofwboot.xcf
open /netbsd: no such file or directory
open /netbsd.gz: no such file or directory
4860575+....
 start=9x00...

invalid memory access at %srr0: 0000003a  %srr1: 00003a00

and drops back to OpenFirmware prompt


Runs Mac OSX ok.
OpenBSD at least gets further..still installing.
(They show up in the GUI multiboot too, nice)


Apple Powerbook 3,3 4.5.3f2 BootROM built on 10/25/02

15" 1GHz PowerBook G4 I think "Titanium"

I think 768MB RAM -- wierd amount?

Same as this:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2009/09/27/msg000876.html
http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-port-macppc-22316-%281.6.1-kernels-fail-to-boot-on-a-1GHz-15%22-PowerBook%29-td16600342.html#a16624668
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2006/03/25/0001.html

etc.


 - Jay


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