Hello openBSD ppc mail list, I tried installing OpenBSD on my mac powerbook 1 ghz. I am running OS X 10.5.8.
My internal DVD super drive is broken, so I tried installing via external firewire DVD. This did not work. I then tried to install via a lacie external usb optical disk drive, this too failed. I then placed ofwboot and bsd.rd in / of my OSX volume. My volumes looked like this: /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: Apple_partition_scheme *149.1 Gi disk0 1: Apple_partition_map 31.5 Ki disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS OSX 40.0 Gi disk0s3 3: Apple_HFS Data 98.3 Gi disk0s5 4: Apple_HFS BSD 10.4 Gi disk0s7 I also tried this entire process with the BSD slice befor the Data slice, that is BSD would be disk0s5 and Data would be disk0s7, but this failed as well I rebooted held opt-cmd-o-f and started in openfirmware. At the open firmware prompt I typed boot hd:,ofwboot bsd.rd. I got the following message. Note: I broke the following lines with \ to read easier in the email. / ok 0 > boot hd:,ofwboot bsd.rd load-size=fe28 adler32=d93e276c Loading ELF >> OpenBSD/macppc BOOT 1.1 /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:/etc/boot.conf: line too long boot> booting /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:bsd.rd: \ /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:bsd.rd Inappropriate file type or format failed(79) will try /bsd boot> booting /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:/bsd: \ /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:bsd Inappropriate file type or format failed(79) will try /bsd Turning timeout off. Does anyone have any idea why I am getting this error?
