Oh no, the SATA adapter works fine. It’s recognized by Open Firmware and the boot menu lets me select the Tiger install.
What I don’t know is how to *manually* boot it through the Open Firmware console so I can load the OpenBSD boot loader. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 26, 2018, at 8:13 PM, Nick Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/25/18 14:51, Katherine Rohl wrote: >> I’m trying to run OpenBSD and Tiger on one hard drive on a Mac G4 >> tower. I’ve successfully installed 6.4 onto the drive and I can still >> boot from Tiger, so that’s good. I then copied ofwboot to the Tiger >> partition (since it’s the first HFS+ partition). >> >> I have an Silicon Image 3112-based PCI SATA controller that’s >> recognized by OF. Unfortunately, I can’t remember how to tell Open >> Firmware to boot from a SATA drive attached to a PCI controller so I >> can specify the OpenBSD boot image! >> >> Does anyone know how to find out the partition’s location in the >> device tree so I can boot to BSD? I’m not good with Open Firmware, >> unfortunately. I’m more of a Classic person, with my Mac usually in >> OS 9. > > You have much greater faith in Apple firmware doing things with > non-Apple HW than I do. :) > > Apple built their firmware to boot MacOS from MacHW, and anything beyond > that that actually works is more good luck than their intent. I'm not > saying it's impossible, it's just not guaranteed. And it might be buggy > if it does try to work. > > I'd suggest just booting off your IDE disk and use your SATA disk as > non-boot space. Or perhaps a SATA to IDE adapter and attach it to the > factory IDE port. > > Nick. >
