Re: macppc install56.iso - CD issues
On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, patrick keshishian wrote: From: patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com To: misc misc@openbsd.org Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 08:10:43 Subject: macppc install56.iso - CD issues ... On a related note, how can base tools (cdio(1)?) be used instead of cdrecord(1) (from ports) to burn these images to disc? As described in the FAQ, 4.3.1 - Making a CD-ROM ? -- Dennis Davis dennisda...@fastmail.fm
Re: macppc install56.iso - CD issues
On 12/09/14 08:10, patrick keshishian wrote: Hi, I must be doing something wrong here and need some hints to figure out what. My attempts to burn macppc install56.iso to a CD seems to produce un-bootable discs. I'm using cdrecord(1) to perform the burns. At the Open Firmware prompt I issue: 0 boot cd:,ofwboot /5.6/macppc/bsd.rd and that results in: DISK-LABEL: read of block0 failed ATAPI-DISK: open of DISK-LABEL failed can't OPEN: cd:,ofwboot Can't open device or file ok 0 I went through four different burn attempts; one with Dec 7th snapshot. And three right now with Dec 8th one. I tested with official 5.6 CD and that CD boots just fine. This is how the image was burned to disc: # cdrecord -v dev=/dev/rcd0c install56.iso cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Assuming -sao mode. cdrecord: If your drive does not accept -sao, try -tao. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent default s. Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.00 (amd64-unknown-openbsd5.6) Copyright (C) 1995-2 [...] BURN-Free is ON. Turning BURN-Free off Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150 Writing pregap for track 1 at -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 218 of 218 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 33.1x. Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 228696064/228696064 (111668 sectors). Writing time: 75.670s Average write speed 22.3x. Min drive buffer fill was 97% Fixating... Fixating time:3.591s cdrecord: fifo had 3723 puts and 3723 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 1843 times full, min fill was 95%. # echo $? 0 Note the WARNING. Also note that burning an amd64 image works just fine (with same WARNING during cdrecord phase). On a related note, how can base tools (cdio(1)?) be used instead of cdrecord(1) (from ports) to burn these images to disc? Thanks in advance, --patrick Hi, What happens when you hold the 'c' key during reboot? If you mount the disks under a working system is ofwboot in the / ? hth Fred
Re: macppc install56.iso - CD issues
Check out http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#MkCD-ROM and faq13. It reads: # cdio tao cd56.iso Regards
Re: macppc install56.iso - CD issues
Hi Fred, On 12/9/14, Fred open...@crowsons.com wrote: On 12/09/14 08:10, patrick keshishian wrote: Hi, I must be doing something wrong here and need some hints to figure out what. My attempts to burn macppc install56.iso to a CD seems to produce un-bootable discs. I'm using cdrecord(1) to perform the burns. At the Open Firmware prompt I issue: 0 boot cd:,ofwboot /5.6/macppc/bsd.rd and that results in: DISK-LABEL: read of block0 failed ATAPI-DISK: open of DISK-LABEL failed can't OPEN: cd:,ofwboot Can't open device or file ok 0 I went through four different burn attempts; one with Dec 7th snapshot. And three right now with Dec 8th one. I tested with official 5.6 CD and that CD boots just fine. This is how the image was burned to disc: # cdrecord -v dev=/dev/rcd0c install56.iso cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Assuming -sao mode. cdrecord: If your drive does not accept -sao, try -tao. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent default s. Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.00 (amd64-unknown-openbsd5.6) Copyright (C) 1995-2 [...] BURN-Free is ON. Turning BURN-Free off Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150 Writing pregap for track 1 at -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 218 of 218 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 33.1x. Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 228696064/228696064 (111668 sectors). Writing time: 75.670s Average write speed 22.3x. Min drive buffer fill was 97% Fixating... Fixating time:3.591s cdrecord: fifo had 3723 puts and 3723 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 1843 times full, min fill was 95%. # echo $? 0 Note the WARNING. Also note that burning an amd64 image works just fine (with same WARNING during cdrecord phase). On a related note, how can base tools (cdio(1)?) be used instead of cdrecord(1) (from ports) to burn these images to disc? Thanks in advance, --patrick Hi, What happens when you hold the 'c' key during reboot? I get gray screen with folder and flashing ?. If you mount the disks under a working system is ofwboot in the / ? Yes sir. $ sudo mount /dev/cd0a /mnt/cd $ ls /mnt/cd 5.6/ ofwboot --patrick hth Fred
Re: macppc install56.iso - CD issues
On 12/9/14, Maurice McCarthy m...@mythic-beasts.com wrote: Check out http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#MkCD-ROM and faq13. It reads: # cdio tao cd56.iso Thanks Maurice and Dennis for point me to the FAQ on cdio(1) usage. Richard Toohey was first to respond in private with the hint as well. I didn't want to muddy the unbootable iso image issue with cdio(1) usage, so I didn't mention that I had tried the following based on reading cdio(1) man-page: $ sudo cdio -v -f /dev/rcd0c tao -d install56.iso Features: 0x Profile List (60 bytes of data) * 0x0009 Write once Compact Disc [Current Profile] 0x0001 Core (8 bytes of data) 0x0002 Morphing (4 bytes of data) 0x0003 Removable Medium (4 bytes of data) 0x0021 Incremental Streaming Writable (8 bytes of data) 0x002d CD Track at Once (TAO) (4 bytes of data) 0x002e CD Mastering (Session at Once) (4 bytes of data) 0x0100 Power Management 0x0105 Timeout (4 bytes of data) 0x0107 Real Time Streaming (4 bytes of data) 0x0108 Drive Serial Number (12 bytes of data) 0x010c Firmware Information (16 bytes of data) cdio: mode select failed: 3 I just assumed I was missing something subtle in its usage or perhaps another needed tool. I should have verified with the FAQ indeed. --patrick Regards
Re: macppc install56.iso - CD issues
On 12/09/14 19:07, patrick keshishian wrote: Hi Fred, On 12/9/14, Fred open...@crowsons.com wrote: On 12/09/14 08:10, patrick keshishian wrote: Hi, I must be doing something wrong here and need some hints to figure out what. My attempts to burn macppc install56.iso to a CD seems to produce un-bootable discs. I'm using cdrecord(1) to perform the burns. At the Open Firmware prompt I issue: 0 boot cd:,ofwboot /5.6/macppc/bsd.rd and that results in: DISK-LABEL: read of block0 failed ATAPI-DISK: open of DISK-LABEL failed can't OPEN: cd:,ofwboot Can't open device or file ok 0 I went through four different burn attempts; one with Dec 7th snapshot. And three right now with Dec 8th one. I tested with official 5.6 CD and that CD boots just fine. This is how the image was burned to disc: # cdrecord -v dev=/dev/rcd0c install56.iso cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Assuming -sao mode. cdrecord: If your drive does not accept -sao, try -tao. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent default s. Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.00 (amd64-unknown-openbsd5.6) Copyright (C) 1995-2 [...] BURN-Free is ON. Turning BURN-Free off Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150 Writing pregap for track 1 at -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 218 of 218 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%] 33.1x. Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 228696064/228696064 (111668 sectors). Writing time: 75.670s Average write speed 22.3x. Min drive buffer fill was 97% Fixating... Fixating time:3.591s cdrecord: fifo had 3723 puts and 3723 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 1843 times full, min fill was 95%. # echo $? 0 Note the WARNING. Also note that burning an amd64 image works just fine (with same WARNING during cdrecord phase). On a related note, how can base tools (cdio(1)?) be used instead of cdrecord(1) (from ports) to burn these images to disc? Thanks in advance, --patrick Hi, 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. There used to be apple support article on their NVRAM instructions - but my apple / google foo is not finding it which you can use to boot from other devices. I did find this article in my search - but I'm not sure it links to anything useful... http://support.apple.com/en-us/ts2570 hth Fred
Re: macppc install56.iso - CD issues
On 12/9/14, Fred open...@crowsons.com wrote: On 12/09/14 19:07, patrick keshishian wrote: On 12/9/14, Fred open...@crowsons.com 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
Re: macppc install56.iso - CD issues
On 12/09/14 20:51, patrick keshishian wrote: On 12/9/14, Fred open...@crowsons.com wrote: On 12/09/14 19:07, patrick keshishian wrote: On 12/9/14, Fred open...@crowsons.com 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 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: 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 9800 size 800, : consaddr 9c008000, : ioaddr 9002, size 2: 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 dera...@macppc.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC real mem = 536870912 (512MB) Cheers Fred
Re: macppc install56.iso - CD issues
On 12/9/14, Fred Crowson f...@crowsons.net wrote: On 12/09/14 20:51, patrick keshishian wrote: On 12/9/14, Fred open...@crowsons.com wrote: On 12/09/14 19:07, patrick keshishian wrote: On 12/9/14, Fred open...@crowsons.com 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 dera...@macppc.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC OpenBSD 5.6-current (GENERIC.MP) #396: Mon Dec 8 18:14:39 MST 2014 dera...@macppc.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC.MP OpenBSD 5.6-current (RAMDISK) #344: Mon Dec 8 18:30:19 MST 2014 dera...@macppc.openbsd.org:/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 9800 size 800, : consaddr 9c008000, : ioaddr 9002, size 2: 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 dera...@macppc.openbsd.org:/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: 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: 3254880 ISO9660 c: 3254880 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: flags: bytes/sector: 2048 sectors/track: 100 tracks/cylinder: 1 sectors/cylinder: 100 cylinders: 4001 total sectors: 40 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: 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: 1116640 ISO9660 c: 1116640 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
