On 16/11/2005, at 12:43 PM, Bob Ababurko wrote:
If this is an oldworld (before circa 1988) you cannot boot from a
cd. Google your model to see if it is. Otherwise, you could try to
boot the laptop while pressing cmd+opt+shift+delete to skip the
first bootable device....I believe it is something like that.
You may also look into the ramdisk booting method, if your machine
will not boot off of a cd.
Good Luck,
bob
For what it's worth, OpenBSD will run on a bronze keyboard Powerbook G3
333MHz - the model prior to the first one with Firewire ports. I had to
try several times to get it to recognise the CD, but I think that was
thanks to a flaky CD drive. dmesg below.
Sam
[ using 308668 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ]
console out [ATY,264LTProA]console in [keyboard] ADB found
using parent ATY,LTProParent:: memaddr 81000000 size 1000000, :
consaddr 81000000, : ioaddr 80881000, size 1000: memtag 8800, iotag
8800: width 1024 linebytes 1024 height 768 depth 8
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OpenBSD 3.7 (GENERIC) #225: Sun Mar 20 00:55:39 MST 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC
real mem = 402653184 (393216K)
avail mem = 360964096 (352504K)
using 1254 buffers containing 20131840 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: 750 (Revision 0x8202): 333 MHz: 512KB backside cache
mpcpcibr0 at mainbus0: grackle, Revision 0x40
pci0 at mpcpcibr0 bus 0
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Motorola MPC106 PCI" rev 0x40
ohci0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "AT&T/Lucent USB" rev 0x12: irq 28,
version 1.0
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: AT&T/Lucent OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
macobio0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Apple Paddington" rev 0x00
macintr0 at macobio0
zsc0 at macobio0: irq 15,16
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0
zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
awacs0 at macobio0: irq 17,8,9 speaker
audio0 at awacs0
adb0 at macobio0 irq 18: via-pmu 3 targets
aed0 at adb0 addr 0: ADB Event device
akbd0 at adb0 addr 2: PowerBook G4 keyboard (Inverted T)
wskbd0 at akbd0 (mux 1 ignored for console): console keyboard
ams0 at adb0 addr 3: EMP trackpad <tpad> 2-button, 400 dpi
wsmouse0 at ams0 mux 0
abtn0 at adb0 addr 7: brightness/volume/eject buttons
apm0 at adb0: battery flags 0x5, 100% charged
wdc0 at macobio0 irq 13: DMA
wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <FUJITSU MHH2048AT>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 4645MB, 9514260 sectors
wd0(wdc0:0:0): using BIOS timings, DMA mode 2
mediabay0 at macobio0 irq 29
wdc1 at mediabay0 offset 0x21000 irq 14: DMA
atapiscsi0 at wdc1 channel 0 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <MATSHITA, CD-ROM CR-175, 5AAE> SCSI0 5/
cdrom removable
cd0(wdc1:0:0): using BIOS timings, DMA mode 2
bm0 at macobio0 irq 42,33: address 00:50:e4:00:af:41
ukphy0 at bm0 phy 0: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy0: OUI 0x080017, model 0x0001, rev. 0
vgafb0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "ATI Mach64 LI" rev 0xdc, mmio
wsdisplay0 at vgafb0: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
cbb0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "Texas Instruments PCI1211 CardBus"
rev 0x00: irq 22
cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 1 device 0 cacheline 0x8, lattimer 0x20
pcmcia0 at cardslot0
bootpath: '/pci/mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/bsd'
boot device: wd0.
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0xb00 rawdev=0xb02
