Op 2 nov. 2011 om 08:34 heeft cbsol...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: > 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
How did those installs fail? > 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? Afaik, ofwboot only supports booting from hfs, not from hfs+. I suppose that is your problem here. -Otto
