A word about OpenBSD PPC docs

Hola people,

Some days ago I decided to install OpenBSD on my Powerbook.
Everything went smoothly during the installation and the
'congratulations' message appeared. After rebooting my
laptop
I was unable to boot OpenBSD.

Reading the INSTALL.macppc file as well as part of the
mailing
list archives provided me with no clue at all. I tried
every
possible combination on openfirmware but no luck. Yet I
noticed
that there were several people complaining about this
problem
on the list but no actual solution was proposed.

What I did was to boot from the cd, get a shell, mount the
msdos
partition and copy the ofwboot file in it. At the next
reboot
everything was ok. It took me several hours to come up with
this
idea (dunno, probably because I am new to the PPC world).

So why don't you guys update the installation notes in
INSTALL.macppc ? The text describes the HFS + ofwboot case
but
totally ignores the MBR case. The OpenBSD installer warns
the
user about the msdos partition but does not instruct him to
copy
the ofwboot file by hand.

Keep up the good work
./hk

Hmm weird when I installed mine the installer does copy the
file to
the i partition.

But I had other hiccup, the i partition was NOT formatted
by
newfs_msdos the first attempt and I had to reboot into a
shell,
manually format the partition then did a clean
re-installation.

But yea I like to see this improve as well.

2007/4/13, huku - <hk.vigstergmail.com>:
> Hola people,
>
> Some days ago I decided to install OpenBSD on my
Powerbook.
> Everything went smoothly during the installation and
the
> 'congratulations' message appeared. After rebooting my
laptop
> I was unable to boot OpenBSD.
>
> Reading the INSTALL.macppc file as well as part of the
mailing
> list archives provided me with no clue at all. I tried
every
> possible combination on openfirmware but no luck. Yet I
noticed
> that there were several people complaining about this
problem
> on the list but no actual solution was proposed.
>
> What I did was to boot from the cd, get a shell, mount
the msdos
> partition and copy the ofwboot file in it. At the next
reboot
> everything was ok. It took me several hours to come up
with this
> idea (dunno, probably because I am new to the PPC
world).
>
> So why don't you guys update the installation notes in
> INSTALL.macppc ? The text describes the HFS + ofwboot
case but
> totally ignores the MBR case. The OpenBSD installer
warns the
> user about the msdos partition but does not instruct
him to copy
> the ofwboot file by hand.
>
> Keep up the good work
> ./hk
>
>


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