Re: Trouble booting off hard disk on iBook G4

Emmanuel Dreyfus <[email protected]> Thu, 7 Apr 2022 01:22:47 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.macppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 02:13:08AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> The hard disk has an HFS partition with ofwboot.xcf on the root, and 
> a NetBSD FFS partition that contains netbsd.macppc. I try to boot with
> boot hd:,\ofwbot.xcf netbsd.macppc
> 
> ofwboot.xcf find and loads the kernel, which then hangs after displaying
> a single line about lack of ADB support, assumoing USB keyboard.

After some experiment, I can boot any kernel provided it is stored 
along ofwboot.xcf on the HFS partition. If I try to load a kernel
from the FFS partition with the OpenFirmware command below, it loads
and crash:
boot hd:,\ofwboot.xcf hd:9,/netbsd

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
[email protected]