Hi everyone,
First off:
Thanks, lots, to everyone having made it possible to install OpenBSD
to these two old and dear Macintosh Powerbooks - the hardware on
both of them - after minor repairs - after that many years seems be
still okay - which is close to a being a miracle given that nowadays
hardware does not seem to be even close as robust as the one on
these two machines. One of those Macintoshs is from 2002, the other
one from 2006.
This message isn't an installation report - just a quick note that an
install with these two images, dd-ed to a USB drive, installed
successfully OpenBSD to both machines.
Images used:
install64.iso
sha256sum:
66924962734ca189657d9e37c9d9f59488cbd3d15ccceaa429794f759fcda587
and
install65.iso - downloaded a few days ago
sha256sum:
4ed18cf0bc3b7205bd25b2c58cbd20c82e83056613c1601b03a1b9289c672c6f
[ note 0:
6.5 was unable to pull new packages after the successful basic
install - with messages along the line of:
"Can't install ... can't resolve package ..."
... no idea what went wrong. 6.4 seems to work when installing new
packages after the initial install.
note 1:
Both installers, IIRC, 6.5 and 6.4, don't ask for a keyboard
language setup. So be careful about the passwords you type in
during the install procedure. ]
A quick instruction on the install via USB:
You need to enter Open Firmware mode of your Macintosh: after powering
on the machine quickly hold down
<Apple Key>-<Alt> plus O and F
Keep holding all four keys until OF shows up.
At the OF prompt type:
0 > dev / ls
A device tree is drawn: Search for lines like those:
/pci@f2000000
/usb@18
/disk@1
Note they are mixed with other lines in the tree. And they
might look different on your machine, like e.g.
/pci@f2000000
/usb@15
/disk@1
Now type:
0> devalias
Look for lines that match a /usb number from above: one might
look like so:
usb0 pci@f000000/@15
Here's the final part that worked here. Type something like
this - taking into account the last example line from OF, and
the ones above ("/usb@15 /disk@1") to boot the openbsd
installer:
boot usb0/disk@1:2,ofwboot /6.4/macppc/bsd.rd
You have lots more details on this usb install on the
following page - a page that was instrumental to help me
understand this install mode:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2012/08/msg00042.html
After successfully installing the two mentioned images I didn't have a
known boot manager like grub, yaboot etc.. instead I again needed
to enter OF:
Once there
boot hd:,ofwboot /bsd
might work right after install of OBSD 6.4 if the OS boot fails. To
see whether this works repeat looking at the output in OF from
above:
dev / ls
and
devalias
Please also note:
https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
and this part of that page:
---------------
Autobooting OpenBSD/macppc
It is possible to automatically boot into OpenBSD (selectably
into Mac OS) by setting up the following:
setenv auto-boot? true
setenv boot-device hd:,ofwboot
[to save the results into NVRAM]
reset-all
----------------
Might be a good idea to update INSTALL.macppc instructions, provided a
few more installs by others can verify the described procedure.
Anyways: preliminary, quick patch draft is attached below. Diff done
to an INSTALL.macppc being already a few days old.
Thanks again!
And success to the lucky ones still having an old PPC Macintosh
around ... :)
Regards,
Wolfgang
The diff:
--- INSTALL.macppc 2019-02-26 23:41:53.297984851 +0100
+++ INSTALL.macppc.new 2019-03-11 16:39:37.853061662 +0100
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@
HFS partitions (bootloader/kernel only, using another media for d/l)
Remote NFS partition
HTTP
+ USB
The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets for installation
depend on which method of installation you choose. Some methods
@@ -295,6 +296,47 @@
Once the NFS server is set up properly and you have the
information mentioned above, you can proceed to the next
step in the installation or upgrade process.
+
+
+You can also boot the installer with a USB thumb: To do that enter
+Open Firmware - see below how to do that. At the OF prompt type
+
+0 > dev / ls
+
+ A device tree is drawn: Search for lines like those:
+
+ /pci@f2000000
+ /usb@18
+ /disk@1
+
+ Note they are mixed with other lines in the tree. And they
+ might look different on your machine, like
+
+ /pci@f2000000
+ /usb@15
+ /disk@1
+
+ Now type:
+
+0> devalias
+
+ Look for lines that match a /usb number from above: one might
+ look like so:
+
+ usb0 pci@f000000/@15
+
+ Here's the final part. Type something like this - taking into
+ account the last example line from OF, and the ones above
+ ("/usb@15 /disk@1") to boot the openbsd installer:
+
+boot usb0/disk@1:2,ofwboot /6.4/macppc/bsd.rd
+
+ You have lots more details on this usb install on the
+ following page - a page that was instrumental to get this
+ USB install working:
+
+https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2012/08/msg00042.html
+
If you are upgrading OpenBSD, you also have the option of installing
OpenBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your
