Re: Issues with NetBSD 8.1 macppc

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

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 08:50:47PM +0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 30/10/2019 20:40, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> >> 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
> 
> I see, so it's not the vanilla ISO available from
> https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.1/iso/NetBSD-8.1-macppc.iso. Are you able
> to make the ISO available for me to download somewhere for testing?

Sure, you can find the ISOs with (unpatched) the OF_finddevice call and
without (patched) at the following locations:
  https://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/patched.iso.xz
  https://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/unpatched.iso.xz

Joerg