Installboot on Beige G3
James Horner <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:18:20 +0100
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Hi There I am trying to get NetBSD 10.1 installed on an Old World Beige Mac G3 with Openfirmware 2.0f1. I realise this is marked as difficult on the model page but this is what I have so this is what I am doing! After Install from CD (using a Zulu SCSI) I am dropping to a shell and running: # installboot -m macppc /dev/rwd0c /usr/mdec/bootxx /usr/mdec/ofwboot This is asking me to provide "-B bno" which I am having difficulty understanding what is required for this value. I am installing to a CF Card installed as ide0. I have a working OS9 Cd I can boot with System Disk available so if I need to make any changes there I can. Any Advice on how to proceed from here would be greatly appreciated. It's quite frustrating as I have Gentoo booting via the Bootx app but really I would like a NetBSD only setup on this box. Thanks!