Re: Issues with NetBSD 8.1 macppc

On 30/10/2019 20:40, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

>> So just to confirm that this is cause of the XXXX error message that you see? If I
>> load qemu-system-ppc and try and list the contents of the various partitions on the
>> NetBSD 8.1 CDROM then I see this:
> 
> 0 > dir /pci@f2000000/mac-io@c/ata-3@21000/cdrom@0:0,\ mac-parts mac-parts: Unable to determine filesystem
>  ok
> 0 > dir /pci@f2000000/mac-io@c/ata-3@21000/cdrom@0:1,\ mac-parts: Unable to determine filesystem
>  ok
> 0 > dir /pci@f2000000/mac-io@c/ata-3@21000/cdrom@0:2,\ 
>      16384 2019-10-30 11:49:38 Desktop DB
>          0 2019-10-30 11:49:38 Desktop DF
>     131072 2019-10-30 11:49:38 macppc\
>    5477006 2019-10-30 11:49:01 netbsd
>      81486 2019-10-30 11:49:01 ofwboot.xcf
>  ok
> 
> and after "boot cd:,ofwboot.xcf:
> 
> ...
> [   1.0000000] bootpath: /pci@f2000000/mac-io@c/ata-3@21000/cdrom@0:0/netbsd
> 
> with a kernel that has the block in line 140 above commented out.
> 
> The ISO has been created with:
>   mkisofs -r -o boot.iso -hfs -part -l -J -N -m netbsd ofwboot.xcf netbsd

I see, so it's not the vanilla ISO available from
https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.1/iso/NetBSD-8.1-macppc.iso. Are you able
to make the ISO available for me to download somewhere for testing?


ATB,

Mark.