-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 After reading the excellent NetBSD documentation, I realized that the problem was dyslexic in nature. OpenBSD's ofwboot does in fact work correctly on my computer.
However, the NetBSD documentation is very excellent. http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ofwboot+8.macppc+NetBSD-current http://www.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/faq.html#boot-trouble On Tue, 03 May 2011 07:48:23 -0400 annathemerm...@hush.com wrote: >So, finished installing OpenBSD 4.9 the other day on a recently >acquired old iBook. It all went very well, right up until the >point >where I tried to boot my new OpenBSD system up. In Open Firmware, >I >had to play around with the device name to find something that >didn't give an error, and when I finally did, it booted into... >Mac >OS 9.2.2! Tada! Not really. It was actually very anti-climatic. > >Then I tried installing a small Debian partition, hoping that >maybe >OpenBSD would do better at booting via yaboot than via Open >Firmware, but, no luck: Debian won't even install. It complains >that either there is no Apple Bootstrap partition or else it is >the >wrong size. I'm not sure what to do about that. Wasn't Mac OS X >supposed to install any necessary Apple Bootrap partitions? If it >didn't, what can I do? The Mac OS X installer's partitioning tool >really isn't that powerful. > >Why should ofwboot take me to Mac OS 9.2.2? And what's this Apple >Bootstrap partition Debian is complaining about? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Charset: UTF8 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 3.0 wsBcBAEBAgAGBQJNwGCvAAoJEKlMTST7VF+oRZEIALcFqhyCL+hjoHviZpN8t+VU07RV uC3NbOjbnD1L9y2ScmblHv7II5K/kcn6gZm40kMd5Pcn237lYz3QglVGko8JSm/EfZCj oabTY6PMy37Gn7a0IDG/fZgQI6DQDhcanTKAPKljI89zsJ1nq5bCSLRstU83GYVAniGa Zlh7sKiVfk0PjfWgn33PQKXe8ATCkjE7jCjS6mBaK+URfWm2Eg9pu+odqhK3PmYNaTo/ uYw5LeSUmwDWsHIr8gSMi+xj9EmppyluuVIGTZtD5qu6sjqNgVowOByfd/e1HhVJMUdV jTVxpfZAF8FSUZ74EwhIUfp4+730Gsl+tauPjuLOmkA= =Ca/H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
