I can now. The problem was that the ofwboot file wasn't copied to the msdos partition and the partition wasn't formatted. Once I did that all was well and I can boot straight in.
Thanks, Bryan > On Sep 9, 2015, at 5:04 AM, Carlos Fenollosa <carlos.fenoll...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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 > >
