On Jun 10 13:43:07, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:51:46PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > I got this Mac Mini on my hands, and I would like to install > > current/macppc on it. According to > > http://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html#hardware > > the following MicMini's are supported: > > > > Mac mini (PowerMac10,1) > > Mac mini (Late 2005 (PowerMac10,2)) > > > > My model number is A1103. A quick search suggests > > that it's the same as "PowerMac10,1" - is that correct? > > > > If so, it should be supported. My problem is it won't > > boot from install51.iso. I hold the [c] key while booting up, > > but it still boots into the MacOSX 10.5.8 that is currently > > installed on the disk, instead of booting from the CD. > > > > Am I missing something obvious? > > > > Jan > > Oh goody a Mac problem, maybe I can help you. I have a Mac G4 Cube. Its > cdrom > is not working anymore and the external cdrom that I have doesn't get detected > by the firmware. So what I did was create a memstick with 2 disk slices and > I boot bsd.rd off that, once the kernel is booted the memstick is device sd0 > and I install off it like a harddrive. It takes a while for me because the > usb > bus is spec 1.1, but it works to install and upgrade. Here is how the > slices/partittions look like on the memstick. > > # fdisk sd0 > Disk: sd0 geometry: 493/255/63 [7931904 Sectors] > Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 > Starting Ending LBA Info: > #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 0: 06 0 1 1 - 0 33 32 [ 63: 2048 ] DOS > > 32MB > 1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > > 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > > 3: A6 0 33 34 - 492 254 63 [ 2112: 7917933 ] OpenBSD > > the third slice has openbsd in the same format as the cd, the 0th slice has > ofwboot in it. > > Now you may wonder how you get that stuff on the memstick because macppc is > big endian. I would suggest you either prepare it off a big endian machine > or what I did initially was netboot the very first time and then created the > stick. Its not all a big waste of time. My mac rocks! (it has an SSD in it > giving me quiet 4MB/s transfers with scp, no drive rattling). > > One more thing on the usb stick, you may have to devalias the correct usb > device in the firmware. So arm yourself with some firmware commands to be > able to do that.
I'd be glad to get it to boot off a USB stick or from network, but I can't get it to to that, either. Whatever I do at boot time, it just boots straight into the nstalled MacOSX. I tried to set the startup disk in Preferences > Startup Disk; but unlike the MacOSX install CD, which appears there as an alternative, the OpenBSD install CD does not. I also tried installing NetBSD on it, with the same non-result.
