On 12/9/14, Fred Crowson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/09/14 20:51, patrick keshishian wrote:
>> On 12/9/14, Fred <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 12/09/14 19:07, patrick keshishian wrote:
>>>> On 12/9/14, Fred <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> What happens when you hold the 'c' key during reboot?
>>>>
>>>> I get gray screen with folder and flashing "?".
>>>
>>> I have had that when I messed up an install (I dual boot my iBook) and
>>> ended up to use my Mac OS X disks to reformat the drive - with a bigger
>>> OpenBSD partition.
>>
>> Not quite the situation with my macppc, as it is not
>> dual booting and it is dealing with CD media not HDD.
>>
>> I believe the issue has to do with the newly burned CD
>> or the source install56.iso image.
>>
>> As I pointed out the official 5.6 CD boots just fine. Later
>>
>> I also don't think it is the CD-R media, as I verified I can
>> burn an amd64 image (install56.iso file) and it boots
>> fine (on an amd64 hw of course).
>>
>> Best,
>> --patrick
>>
Hi Fred,
> Using:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 228696064 Dec 09 01:32 install56.iso
>
> from mirror.ox.ac.uk - I have successfully upgraded by burning a cdrom:
Thanks for *this* info. I was hoping someone would
provide something like this.
That's the exact install56.iso I was using yesterday from
Colorado (US) mirror (IIRC):
$ cksum -a sha256 install56.iso
SHA256 (install56.iso) =
586ab0c9d30fba85c19e6c45071fc0dfbe78190bfaf89f244bfbebceeae611ff
$ strings 5.6/macppc/bsd* | grep -A1 ^OpenBSD\ 5.6-current
OpenBSD 5.6-current (GENERIC) #344: Mon Dec 8 17:57:34 MST 2014
[email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC
OpenBSD 5.6-current (GENERIC.MP) #396: Mon Dec 8 18:14:39 MST 2014
[email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC.MP
OpenBSD 5.6-current (RAMDISK) #344: Mon Dec 8 18:30:19 MST 2014
[email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/RAMDISK
> ibook:fred ~> uname -a; dmesg|head
> OpenBSD ibook.crowsons.com 5.6 GENERIC#344 macppc
> [ using 551184 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ]
> console out [ATY,Via_A]console in [keyboard] , using ADB
> using parent ATY,ViaParent:: memaddr 98000000 size 8000000, : consaddr
> 9c008000, : ioaddr 90020000, size 20000: width 1024 linebytes 1024
> height 768 depth 8
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1995-2014 OpenBSD. All rights reserved.
> http://www.OpenBSD.org
>
> OpenBSD 5.6-current (GENERIC) #344: Mon Dec 8 17:57:34 MST 2014
> [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC
> real mem = 536870912 (512MB)
>
> Could the issue be the CD drive in the box?
(this is on a Mac mini G4)
It is starting to look that way, except the fact it boots
with the official 5.6 CD :-)
Couple of experiments I just did:
Pulled my iBook G4 out and it seems OK with the burned
CD image.
so...
macmini> boot off of official 5.6 CD
macmini> drop down to shell
macmini> disklabel cd0
# /dev/rcd0c:
type: ATAPI
disk: OpenBSD5.6 CD 2
label: www.OpenBSD.org
duid: 0000000000000000
flags:
bytes/sector: 2048
sectors/track: 100
tracks/cylinder: 1
sectors/cylinder: 100
cylinders: 3255
total sectors: 325488
boundstart:0
boundend: 325488
drivedata: 0
16 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 325488 0 ISO9660
c: 325488 0 ISO9660
macmini> eject cd0
- insert burnt CD (that doesn't boot)
macmini> disklabel cd0
# /dev/rcd0c:
type: ATAPI
disk: ATAPI CD-ROM
label: fictitious
duid: 0000000000000000
flags:
bytes/sector: 2048
sectors/track: 100
tracks/cylinder: 1
sectors/cylinder: 100
cylinders: 4001
total sectors: 400000
boundstart: 0
boundend: 0
drivedata: 0
0 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
macmini> eject cd0
- insert it into iBook
ibook> disklabel cd0
# /dev/rcd0c:
type: ATAPI
disk: OpenBSD/macppc
label: 5.6 install CD
duid: 0000000000000000
flags:
bytes/sector: 2048
sectors/track: 100
tracks/cylinder: 1
sectors/cylinder: 100
cylinders: 1117
total sectors: 111664
boundstart: 0
boundend: 111664
drivedata: 0
16 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 111664 0 ISO9660
c: 111664 0 ISO9660
I don't understand this. The Mac mini isn't seeing the
burnt media. It has in the past, as I have/had a May 4th
2014 snapshot on it.
Thanks for persisting Fred.
If anyone has any ideas ...
--patrick
