Re: Installboot on Beige G3

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> I am trying to get NetBSD 10.1 installed on an Old World Beige Mac G3
> with Openfirmware 2.0f1. I realise this is marked as difficult on the
> model page but this is what I have so this is what I am doing!
> 
> After Install from CD (using a Zulu SCSI) I am dropping to a shell and running:
> 
> # installboot -m macppc /dev/rwd0c /usr/mdec/bootxx /usr/mdec/ofwboot
> 
> This is asking me to provide "-B bno" which I am having difficulty
> understanding what is required for this value.

- On OF 2.x machines, sysinst (the NetBSD's installer program)
  executes the installboot op so extra manual operation is not necessary.

- The third arg of installboot(8) should be "secondary bootstrap path
  from the target file system specified as the first arg", so
  it should be (if your target root filesystem is mounted on "/"):

# cp /usr/mdec/ofwboot /
# installboot -m macppc /dev/rwd0c /usr/mdec/bootxx /ofwboot

  or your /dev/wd0c partition (maybe equal to /dev/wd0a) doesn't
  have a valid FFS.

It would help to post whole kernel dmesg.

Thanks,
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Izumi Tsutsui