Re: disklabel (was: install files on mac UFS partition) mac mini G4)

> On nov 7 2021, 15:45, Kristoff <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Umberto,
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> On 07.11.21 15:13, Umberto Cerrato wrote:
>> Hi K.
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>> Overall I find everything so much confusing.
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>> For example, I do not know why you keep talking about UFS partition.
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>> I gave you a link from a person who successfully installed netbsd on a Mac mini G4. I do not know why you are not following it.
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> That's what I did, and other simular blogs.

No, you didn’t.

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> In the problem is, ... for some reason, it doesn't work on my machine.
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> In the blog you mention, the 4 last lines are:

How do you expect those to work if you didn’t follow the rest?

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> Drop into the OpenFirmware setup (Command+Option+P+R).
> Set boot-device to hd:,ofwboot.xcf.
> Set boot-file to netbsd.
> And here is the tricky thing to get the machine to auto-boot: Set boot-command to ." hello" cr " screen" output boot, not mac-boot.
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> When I do that and I boot my machine, it does load ofwboot, and then says it cannot find netbsd (i.e. the file "nebsd": the netbsd kernel): "loading netbsd: no such file or directory".
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> And I have absolurely no idea why that is.
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> The only reason I mentioned UFS is because I found some blogs that used that scenario; ...
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> but as "owfboot" does load and start, my impressium is that are already passed that hurdle.
> The question now is "why doesn't ofwboot not find the netbsd kernel?" (that is present on the root-partition of the disk!)
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> Perhaps installing to many different OSses on the box has somewhere corrupted something, which makes ofwboot fail somewhere.
> (That's why I try to understand how the boot-process of netbsd on a mac-mini really works)
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>> -u
> Kristoff