Hi Ryan. Yep, I had double-checked that. OpenFirmware on macppc is pretty much identical to what I have on the SunBlade 100.
Here's an interesting tidbit. When I re-ran the installer with the default partition scheme and a fully-dedicated OpenBSD disk, I noticed that mkfs either wasn't being ran on the wd0i partition (MSDOS) or if it was, it wasn't reporting anything (I saw mkfs results from all of the 4.2BSD partitions so I guessed it wasn't ran). Given that clue, I was able to get the laptop to autoboot by manually doing the following post install: mkfs_msdos /dev/rwd0i mount -t msdos /dev/wd0i /mnt mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt2 cp /mnt2/ofwboot /mnt umount /mnt2 umount /mnt So it looks like the default 5.7 CD that I bought from the OpenBSD store wasn't formatting the MSDOS partition in a situation where the user is dedicating the entire hard drive to OpenBSD. I'm probably an edge case (guessing a lot of people keep OSX on these boxes as well) but is that something someone could look into for 5.8 so that future people in my camp don't have to figure this out? Thanks, Bryan On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Ryan S. Northrup <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 08 Sep 2015, at 11:21, Bryan C. Everly <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to set up an infrastructure where I can test my ports work >> on as many processor architectures as possible. To that end, I set up >> an i386 box (an old Thinkpad T21), a sparc64 box (my old SunBlade 100) >> and am now trying to recycle my old 12" Powerbook so I can do 32-bit >> PPC builds. >> >> Unfortunately, I'm hitting a wall. I have done everything in my power >> to get this to boot after the install but I keep getting the "missing >> system folder" graphic and can't boot from OpenFirmware. >> >> I dedicated the entire disk to OpenBSD and took the default disk >> layout (there is an "i" MSDOS partition of 1M at the front of the >> drive) but it still won't boot. >> >> If anyone could please point out the n00b mistake I made, I will be >> more than happy to take my medicine. I've read the docs over and over, >> searched here to no avail and my general Google-fu failed me yet >> again. >> >> Any help would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Bryan > > Howdy! > > Just as a sanity check, have you already done the "Autobooting > OpenBSD/macppc" step in the INSTALL.macppc instructions? It sounds like > OpenFirmware isn't finding something to boot, as if it's still looking for OS > X. I'd boot into OpenFirmware and (per that step) run both "setenv > auto-boot? true" and "setenv boot-device hd:,ofwboot" in the resulting Forth > prompt. > > If that doesn't fix it, then further information on the exact Powerbook model > would probably be useful. > > Thanks, > -- Ryan
