I think it's okay to put this back on-list? On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:27:46 +1100 cbsol...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello Mr.Rees > > On 11/3/11 3:26 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > > > > > ofwboot gets confused when you try to boot from a bsd install > > kernel in an hfs(+) Mac-volume/partition and there is already > > an OpenBSD Mac-volume/partition in existence. > > > > Try using the Mac OS pdisk utility to change the OpenBSD > > partition type to HFS. No need to format it, just change > > the type. Then try booting the install image from the > > Mac OS X volume. > > I tried to use pdisk, but on my OS X 10.5.8 pdisk doesn't have a t > (change type option). Am I missing something? The pdisk man for OS X > 10.6.6 shows the pdisk -t option, but this is not available for me, > unless I am missing something. Did you check pdisk's internal help command in interactive mode? Hmm. You can just type "sudo pdisk" (You don't have root login enabled, right?) and type "help" or "?" at the pdisk prompt to get a list of top-level commands. Then you can type "e" and it prompts for the device, to which you can type "/dev/rdisk0", I believe. Or you can "L" and get a look at the device name. (If you know this, sorry, I can't tell from what you've written so far.) Once you're in edit mode, do you still not find the type command? > Also in a previous email you mentioned /etc/boot.conf. I just looked > and my OS X 10.5.8 version does not have this file. Yeah. It looks like (and my memory tells me, now that I've pulled that particular swap space back in) that was one common error message from ofwboot to tell you that it couldn't read the kernel from the available file systems that it could read. (See Otto's comments.) I loaded 5.0 two nights back from the install CD and it started giving me read errors from the CD, so I just pointed it to one of the ftp mirrors and re-loaded all the basic packages. Seems to be up now, but that reminded me about the CD problems. The CD connector on this clamshell iBook tends to shake itself loose really easily. Its right under the keyboard, so I should be able to re-seat it without even breaking out the funny screwdrivers. Need to do that before I try using the CD again. By which I mean to say, have you tried re-seating the connections on your drives? > Thank you very much. TIFWIW -- Joel Rees <joel_r...@sannet.ne.jp>
