Re: dir hd:\ -> PARTITION is not a number can't OPEN the DIR device

[Folkert Saathoff]

On May 2, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Fred Crowson wrote:
Papai Adam wrote:
I've installed OpenBSD 3.6 on a G3 iMac following this [1] install  
howto.
But I Cannot boot from hd:, ofwboot /bsd.
I try to list the hd:\ but it says:
dir hd:\  PARTITION is not a number can't OPEN the DIR device
the OpenBSD particion is bootable.
When I try to boot I get the following error message:
0 >  boot hd:,ofwboot /bsd   can't OPEN hd:,ofwboot
How can I boot bsd from Hard Disc?:/
Any suggestions?

Have you tried copying the ofwboot file to the root HFS partition  
in Mac  OS X?
HTH
Fred

i had similar trouble with referencing partitions in ofw...
apparently, the hd devalias does not get updated when
repartitioning the primary hard disk in os x. so in order to
list/ boot files not on the first partition, you have to find
out the name of the partition first. this can afaik not be done
in ofw, i use apple's disk utility.app
when you now the name of the partition your openbsd kernel
is located, you can boot it by referencing it with its full
devicetree path.
the weird thing is how Disk Utily.app names the partitions.
at the moment, my user partition (second of three) has the
identifier disk0s5. i can list the contents of this partition with
dir /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5,\
i can boot a file from this partition with
boot /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5,\folkert\Desktop 
\hello.4th

hope this help,
/folkert
                                                                        
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