Can you boot into OpenBSD manually? That is, getting to the OpenFirmware prompt and then running “boot hd;ofwboot /bsd”?
Carlos > On 08 Sep 2015, at 21:20, Bryan C. Everly <br...@bceassociates.com> wrote: > > Hi Ryan. > > Yep, I had double-checked that. OpenFirmware on macppc is pretty much > identical to what I have on the SunBlade 100. > > Here's an interesting tidbit. When I re-ran the installer with the > default partition scheme and a fully-dedicated OpenBSD disk, I noticed > that mkfs either wasn't being ran on the wd0i partition (MSDOS) or if > it was, it wasn't reporting anything (I saw mkfs results from all of > the 4.2BSD partitions so I guessed it wasn't ran). > > Given that clue, I was able to get the laptop to autoboot by manually > doing the following post install: > > mkfs_msdos /dev/rwd0i > mount -t msdos /dev/wd0i /mnt > mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt2 > cp /mnt2/ofwboot /mnt > umount /mnt2 > umount /mnt > > So it looks like the default 5.7 CD that I bought from the OpenBSD > store wasn't formatting the MSDOS partition in a situation where the > user is dedicating the entire hard drive to OpenBSD. I'm probably an > edge case (guessing a lot of people keep OSX on these boxes as well) > but is that something someone could look into for 5.8 so that future > people in my camp don't have to figure this out? > > > Thanks, > Bryan > > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Ryan S. Northrup > <north...@yellowapple.us> wrote: >> >>> On 08 Sep 2015, at 11:21, Bryan C. Everly <br...@bceassociates.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to set up an infrastructure where I can test my ports work >>> on as many processor architectures as possible. To that end, I set up >>> an i386 box (an old Thinkpad T21), a sparc64 box (my old SunBlade 100) >>> and am now trying to recycle my old 12" Powerbook so I can do 32-bit >>> PPC builds. >>> >>> Unfortunately, I'm hitting a wall. I have done everything in my power >>> to get this to boot after the install but I keep getting the "missing >>> system folder" graphic and can't boot from OpenFirmware. >>> >>> I dedicated the entire disk to OpenBSD and took the default disk >>> layout (there is an "i" MSDOS partition of 1M at the front of the >>> drive) but it still won't boot. >>> >>> If anyone could please point out the n00b mistake I made, I will be >>> more than happy to take my medicine. I've read the docs over and over, >>> searched here to no avail and my general Google-fu failed me yet >>> again. >>> >>> Any help would be appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Bryan >> >> Howdy! >> >> Just as a sanity check, have you already done the "Autobooting >> OpenBSD/macppc" step in the INSTALL.macppc instructions? It sounds like >> OpenFirmware isn't finding something to boot, as if it's still looking for >> OS X. I'd boot into OpenFirmware and (per that step) run both "setenv >> auto-boot? true" and "setenv boot-device hd:,ofwboot" in the resulting Forth >> prompt. >> >> If that doesn't fix it, then further information on the exact Powerbook >> model would probably be useful. >> >> Thanks, >> -- Ryan >
