On 10/24/17, Daniel Boyd <danieljb...@icloud.com> wrote: > I'm into week 2 of trying to get OpenBSD installed on my G4 Cube. > > I first tried installing via CD, but the CD-ROM drive is broken. > > I then tried DHCP/TFTP/NFS booting but couldn't get that working. > > I then tried attaching another IDE CD-ROM drive to the Cube, but I > couldn't get the CD to boot (tried install62.iso and cd62.iso). > > boot cd:,ofwboot /6.2/macppc/bsd.rd DISK-LABEL: read of block 0 failed > ATAPI-DISK: open of DISK-LABEL failed can't OPEN: cd:,ofwboot > > I guess maybe the IDE drive is having issues reading the CD? I have no > idea. > > Abandoning that idea, I am now attempting to boot the installer from > the internal hard drive. I read in INSTALL.macppc that the bootloader > has to be on a DOS partition (or HFS if dual booting which I'm not), so > I looked at the macppc install.md for clues as to how this works. > Here's what I've done so far: > > 1) Installed OpenBSD 6.2 on old spare Dell with IDE hard drive/CD-ROM > 2) Bought Torx T10 screw driver off Amazon > 3) unscrewed some things to get to the IDE connector and then hooked > the Cube hard drive up to the Dell as IDE secondary master > 4) copied /usr/mdec/mbr from macppc base62.tgz > 5) reading from macppc install.md: > 5a) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd1c bs=1M count=1 #assume this is > wiping out the old MBR > 5b) fdisk -f mbr -iy wd1 #write default macppc mbr to disk > 6) newfs -t msdos wd1i
my guess is this step screws your process. You are running into an endianess issue. Your DELL is little endian while MacPPC is bigendian and OpenBSD assumes native endianness on file-systems (I am pretty sure I've read that somewhere). Need to find another MacPPC based system to run your steps through. --patrick > 7) newfs all the openbsd partitions > 8) mount dos partition and wd1a ffs partition > 9) copy ofwboot to dos partition > 10) copy bsd.rd and installation tgz files to ffs partition > > 11) Hooked the hard drive back into the Cube, powered it on and then > typed this into OpenFirmware > > 0 > boot hd:,ofwboot /bsd.rd > > the system added things to the end of that line after I pressed enter: > 0 > boot hd:,ofwboot /bsd.rd load-size=fcbc adler32=c626975c > > and... > > Loading ELF >>> OpenBSD/macppc BOOT 1.6 > /pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:/etc/boot.conf: line too > long > boot > > booting /pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:/bsd.rd /pci@f200000 > 0/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:/bsd.rd: Inappropriate file type or > format > failed(12304). will try /bsd > > So...what am I doing wrong? It's finding ofwboot, but not the kernel. > Where is ofwboot looking for bsd.rd?? I assume it shouldn't go in the > DOS partition since it's only recommended to be 1MB. > >
