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

Hello,

On 2020-03-31 3:21 p.m., Martin Husemann wrote:
> 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'
>>   #:        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.
> 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

Hi Martin,

Here is the command result:

# disklabel wd0
# /dev/rwd0:
type: unknown
disk: ESDI/IDE disk
label: ST980815A
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 155061
total sectors: 156301488
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0         #microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0   #microseconds
drivedata: 0

3 partitions:
#    size      offset     fstype   [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
  a: 156037280     0        4.2BSD  0    0     0   # (Cyl.     0 - 154798*)
  b: 262144     156037312    swap                # (Cyl. 154798*- 155058*)
  c: 156301488      0        unused  0    0        # (Cyl.     0 - 155060)


I find the "unused" partition curious (letter "c").  I took the default
partition option when I ran the install disk.

Here's the result of the other command you suggested:

# installboot /dev/rwd0c /usr/mdec/bootxx /ofwboot
installboot: Could not find secondary bootstrap 'ofwboot' in '/dev/rwd0c'
installboot: (Path must be relative to the file system in '/dev/rwd0c')
installboot: Set bootstrap operation failed.

"boot hd:1" didn't work:

0> boot hd:1  MAC-PARTS: LOAD (noninterposed) not supportedload-size=0
adler32=1

LOAD-SIZE is too small


Anyway, I certainly appreciate your feedback.  Hopefully soon I can
figure this out.

Mark