Re: Issues with NetBSD 8.1 macppc

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 05:40:52PM +0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 30/10/2019 14:07, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 05:03:30AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> >> 2) Can you see any error messages booting with -nographic (this redirects the screen
> >> device to a serial TTY which is output to the console)?
> > 
> > Hello Mark,
> > I run into the same issues while trying to get the automated testing with
> > Anita to work. After some suggestions from Michael, I tracked it down to 
> >   https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src/file/ccc87740ba45/sys/arch/powerpc/oea/ofw_autoconf.c#l140
> > 
> > Commenting out that OF_finddevice call fixes the boot. While booting
> > from CD-ROM, it tries to lookup:
> >   /pci@f2000000/mac-io@c/ata-3@21000/cdrom@0:0/netbsd
> > in qemu 4.1.0. Any further ideas on how to trace this down?
> 
> Hi Joerg,
> 
> So just to confirm that this is cause of the XXXX error message that you see? If I
> load qemu-system-ppc and try and list the contents of the various partitions on the
> NetBSD 8.1 CDROM then I see this:

0 > dir /pci@f2000000/mac-io@c/ata-3@21000/cdrom@0:0,\ mac-parts mac-parts: Unable to determine filesystem
 ok
0 > dir /pci@f2000000/mac-io@c/ata-3@21000/cdrom@0:1,\ mac-parts: Unable to determine filesystem
 ok
0 > dir /pci@f2000000/mac-io@c/ata-3@21000/cdrom@0:2,\ 
     16384 2019-10-30 11:49:38 Desktop DB
         0 2019-10-30 11:49:38 Desktop DF
    131072 2019-10-30 11:49:38 macppc\
   5477006 2019-10-30 11:49:01 netbsd
     81486 2019-10-30 11:49:01 ofwboot.xcf
 ok

and after "boot cd:,ofwboot.xcf:

...
[   1.0000000] bootpath: /pci@f2000000/mac-io@c/ata-3@21000/cdrom@0:0/netbsd

with a kernel that has the block in line 140 above commented out.

The ISO has been created with:
  mkisofs -r -o boot.iso -hfs -part -l -J -N -m netbsd ofwboot.xcf netbsd

Joerg