Re: boot partition (Was: install on PowerBook - no root partition defined)

Hi Valery,

Valery Ushakov wrote:
> I don't remember the details, but iirc you cannot convince OFW to
> recognize FAT partition on a disk that has apple pmap.  Or may be you
> need some arcane knowledge...  But since Apple's OFW is mostly
> stripped, you cannot "see".  The disk must be plain, boring MBR.  Make
> sure there are no residual traces of pmap.

I'm not expert about the details of partition maps and OFW. The only 
time I installed NetBSD on MacPPC was years ago on a system with old OF.
The reason why I am doing this hassle is because according to:

https://www.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/partitioning.html

OF 1.x and 2.x will boot a disklabel partitioned disk, but not OF 3.
I have OF 4.x

>
> IMO, if you don't need to dual-boot with MacOSX and your OFW
> recognizes MBR/FAT, just stay away from pmap/HFS.


I'm going to try my luck using disklabel and creating from srach FAT 
(a), FFS (b) and SWAP (c) and see what happens.

Riccardo