Re: Installing on a Power Macintosh G5

[Chris Tucker <capa150%gmail.com@localhost>]

"  boot cd:,\ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc"

Remove the .macppc part.

  boot cd:,\ofwboot.xcf netbsd

The .macppc bit was only relevant for NetBSD 1.4.

I wrote some lengthy instructions on installing NetBSD 10.1 on my
blue-and-white G3 here https://github.com/capagh/NetBSD10.1-B-W-Mac
I've never installed NetBSD on a G5 but you may find some good clues
in that document.
Hopefully you won't have the IDE hard disk issue that I had, and
you'll be able to completely ignore that part of the document.

On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 8:35 AM Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 06:22:03PM +0300, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> > Any hints?  Or if you have successfully installed NetBSD on a G5,
> > what version of NetBSD was that?
>
> I have (running current right now) but I am not sure if a GENERIC
> kernel will work, I use POWERMAC_G5.MP.
>
> We should add that kernel to the install images, it seems only two kernels
> are there:
>
> CDKERNELS=      netbsd-INSTALL.gz netbsd
> CDKERNELS+=     netbsd-INSTALL_601.gz netbsd.601
>
> (from src/distrib/macppc/cdroms/installcd/Makefile)
>
> I initially booted this machine by loading ofwboot.xcf from a CD and
> then netbooting the kernel. Nowadays I use a FAT partition to load
> ofwboot and the kernel (as my root filesystem is on a sata controller
> that OFW does not know about).
>
> Martin