Hi,
I've spent all day trying to solve my issue but no luck. I
will try to explain my environment and forgive me if I leave
something out by mistake.
I have a power mac G4 (Digital Audio). It's in the
supported models list. I partitioned my only internal drive
and used pdisk to change the partition map. I created
Apple_UNIX_DVR2 for root, swap and usr. I double checked the
partitions after I wrote to the map. Everything looks good.
The firmware is 3. I set the auto-boot to false. I went into
OF and typed some command to check the devices.
I tried 2 solutions:
1. Boot from IDE with HFS partition. I dropped the binary
ofwboot.xcf and netbsd-GENERIC_MD.gz in the HFS partition
(which is the partition where I keep OS X). I run this
command:
0 > boot hd:3,\ofwboot.xcf netbsd-GENERIC_MD.gz
The boot process starts but it stops at this point (I copied
the lines below from the web but in my case at this point,
after the 3rd line, the screen goes black and nothing
happens anymore). I checked the brightness but it's set to
max:
>> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.3
>> (tsubai mint.iri.co.jp, Sun Nov 26 01:41:27 JST
2000)
1701508+177748 [100+68176+55886]=0x1e9468
2. Boot from cd rom:
boot cd:,\ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc
But again the monitor went black at the same point (see
above)
I think I'm doing everything correctly. The only doubt I
have is about the part after creating the file systems
folowing the partitioning notes (http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/partitioning
.html#disk-utility). After I created them I suppose to
mount them but I'm not sure I'm doing things correctly.
Now I don't know if this is causing the issue with the
boot.
Any help would be very appreciated,
thanks,
massimo
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