Re: The first reboot to hard drive after the CD-rom install failed

Hello,

On 2020-03-31 2:22 p.m., Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 01:08:47PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
>> 0 > boot hd:ofwboot.xcf netbsd
>> MAC-PARTS:  can't find a default partition can't OPEN: hd.ofwboot.xcf
>> Can't open device or file
> Can you boot again from the install CD, drop to a shell and then
> try something like:
>
>   pdisk -l /dev/rwd0c
>
> ?
>
> I am very confused about the installation procedure on macppc, and not sure
> if it creates an apple partition map at all currently (and I never got
> booting w/o it working - Michael's suggestion assumes there is such a map
> and it has a valid HFS partition to boot from, the command above would help
> verify that).
>
> Martin

Hi Martin,

Here is the result of the command:

# pdisk -l /dev/rwd0c

Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/rwd0c'
  #:        type             name         length    base    (size)
  1: Apple_partition_map      Apple              2  @  1
  2: NetBSD/macppc          NetBSD  2147483647 @   4    (1024.0G)


Device_block size=512, Number of Blocks=156301488 (74.5G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

It appears the Apple partition map is quite small.

Mark