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

Martin Husemann <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:21:45 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.macppc
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 03:14:15PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> # pdisk -l /dev/rwd0c
> 
> Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/rwd0c'
> Â #:Â Â Â  Â Â Â  type Â Â Â  Â Â Â  Â Â Â  nameÂ Â Â Â  Â Â Â  lengthÂ Â Â  baseÂ Â Â  (size)
> Â 1: Apple_partition_mapÂ  Â Â Â  AppleÂ  Â Â Â  Â Â  Â Â  Â  2Â  @Â  1
> Â 2: NetBSD/macppcÂ Â Â  Â  Â Â Â  NetBSDÂ  2147483647 @Â Â  4Â Â Â  (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.

Yeah, it is a dummy, enough to hold the bootloader.
From the above I would expect something like

	boot hd:1

to work - but maybe the bootloader did not get installed?

(I tried to create a new bootable disk earlier when working on the installer,
but never managed to get it working, neither with the old netbsd-8 sysinst
nor my hacked new version - will revisit it sometime)

Can you also show the output of

	disklabel wd0

? You should be able to mount the NetBSD root partition from the install
CD and verify it has /ofwboot. Also something like:

	installboot /dev/rwd0c /usr/mdec/bootxx /ofwboot

should install the bootloader. You do not need ofwboot.xcf if you are booting
w/o HFS partition.

Martin