You could do the dual booting from an apm (apple partition map) setup with another BSD or Linux.
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Daniel Boyd <danieljb...@icloud.com> wrote: > I posted this to misc, but figured probably more relevant here: > > I'm into week 2 of trying to get OpenBSD installed on my G4 Cube. > > I first tried installing via CD, but the CD-ROM drive is broken. > > I then tried DHCP/TFTP/NFS booting but couldn't get that working. > > I then tried attaching another IDE CD-ROM drive to the Cube, but I > couldn't get the CD to boot (tried install62.iso and cd62.iso). > > boot cd:,ofwboot /6.2/macppc/bsd.rd DISK-LABEL: read of block 0 failed > ATAPI-DISK: open of DISK-LABEL failed can't OPEN: cd:,ofwboot > > I guess maybe the IDE drive is having issues reading the CD? I have no > idea. > > Abandoning that idea, I am now attempting to boot the installer from > the internal hard drive. I read in INSTALL.macppc that the bootloader > has to be on a DOS partition (or HFS if dual booting which I'm not), so > I looked at the macppc install.md for clues as to how this works. > Here's what I've done so far: > > 1) Installed OpenBSD 6.2 on old spare Dell with IDE hard drive/CD-ROM > 2) Bought Torx T10 screw driver off Amazon > 3) unscrewed some things to get to the IDE connector and then hooked > the Cube hard drive up to the Dell as IDE secondary master > 4) copied /usr/mdec/mbr from macppc base62.tgz > 5) reading from macppc install.md: > 5a) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd1c bs=1M count=1 #assume this is > wiping out the old MBR > 5b) fdisk -f mbr -iy wd1 #write default macppc mbr to disk > 6) newfs -t msdos wd1i > 7) newfs all the openbsd partitions > 8) mount dos partition and wd1a ffs partition > 9) copy ofwboot to dos partition > 10) copy bsd.rd and installation tgz files to ffs partition > > 11) Hooked the hard drive back into the Cube, powered it on and then > typed this into OpenFirmware > > 0 > boot hd:,ofwboot /bsd.rd > > the system added things to the end of that line after I pressed enter: > 0 > boot hd:,ofwboot /bsd.rd load-size=fcbc adler32=c626975c > > and... > > Loading ELF > >> OpenBSD/macppc BOOT 1.6 > /pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:/etc/boot.conf: line too > long > boot > > booting /pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:/bsd.rd /pci@f200000 > 0/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:/bsd.rd: Inappropriate file type or > format > failed(12304). will try /bsd > > So...what am I doing wrong? It's finding ofwboot, but not the kernel. > Where is ofwboot looking for bsd.rd?? I assume it shouldn't go in the > DOS partition since it's only recommended to be 1MB. >
