On 10/31/17 20:56, SFM wrote:
Hi PPC enthusiasts !
I have embarked in the (apparently suicidal) mission of installing OpenBSD 6.2
on the very first iMac, which is running Mac OS 8.6. I also have a Mac OS X CD
which I use only for partitioning through disk utility.
Progress :
I Downloaded the iso image OpenBSD 6.2 macppc and Burned it into a bootable CD,
Partitioned my only hard drive with two equally sized HFS+ partitions. Mac OS
8.6 is installed in the first one. Goal: installing OpenBSD in the second HFS+
partition, keeping my MacOS partition intact.
The problem:
Although I followed the partitioning advise on MacPPC.install, the OpenBSD
installer (i do not remember anymore if it was fdisk or pdisk) states that the
drive does not have a valid partition table and shows the entire space as
unallocated!
The request:
Someone, anyone willing to help me make my wish come true of installing OpenBSD
in this baby, could help me with the following:
1) A brief but powerful description of the partitioning process.
2) a brief explanation of how is one supposed to “use Mac OS to move the
bootloader to the first partition of the disk”, which is the last message after
a successful installation (pretty shocking to read that if you just got rid of
exactly that OS; I did this mistake in the past, twice)
For both of these matters, The information contained in the installation
document is simply not Enough for double booters. I wish that could be
different.
Additionally, there seems to be strong disagreement on wether openfirmware
allows booting from a usb stick, even more when it comes to older machines,
like my iMac. Has anyone here had any successful experiences with this ?
Thank you very much in advance for any hints, comments and help !
Raymundo.-
Hi,
My iBook G4 has only had OpenBSD on for the last few upgrades - as Apple
stopped supporting Mac OS X :~) but prior to Jan 2016 I happily dual
booted it.
To dual boot it - once you have installed OpenBSD you need to boot into
mac and copy the ofwboot from the installation to the root of your mac
partition - this can be done by ftp'ing the file so for 6.2 you would:
ftp ftp://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/macppc/ofwboot
once ofwboot is in the root partition of the HFS+ filesystem I would
boot OpenBSD by typing:
0 > boot hd:,ofwboot
at the Open firmware prompt.
Hope fully this answers question 2.
The fdisk manpage (http://man.openbsd.org/fdisk) describes disk
partitioning better than I can.
hth, and enjoy running OpenBSD on macppc :~)
Cheers
Fred
