Dear all, Just to let you know that I eventually managed to install OpenBSD 6.9 on my iBook G4 :)
boot usb0/disk@1:,ofwboot /6.9/macppc/bsd.rd and a fresh USB stick did the trick. Best regards, Samuel > On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 04:07:49 -0700 > Navan Carson <na...@airpost.net> wrote: > >> Do the .iso files work when written to a USB drive? Other architectures >> have .img files for that. > > Yes, the .iso for macppc is from mkhybrid(8) -part -hfs, such that > Open Firmware sees the .iso as an HFS (under an Apple partition map), > but OpenBSD sees the .iso as a cd9660 filesystem. > > This is different from amd64 and powerpc64, where the .img is an > msdos filesystem (under an MBR), but the .iso is a cd9660. > > --George > >
