Re: G4 Cube Install Woes Continued: MSDOS Partition and Disklabel

["Paul M. Jones" <pmjones@memphis.edu>]

on 2001-01-09 14:10, John Lockard at jlockard@umich.edu wrote:

> Ummmm, I'm thinking that you're looking in the wrong place.
> I don't remember MSDOS as being an OS option for booting
> a G4 Mac.  You might want to review again what you're looking
> at for notes.
> 
> -John


Hi, all,

I quote from INSTALL.powerpc:

( begin quote )

Preparing your System for OpenBSD Installation:
-----------------------------------------------

The powerpc port boots off a boot program in an MSDOS filesystem.
This is now set up by the install program and no special setup is required.

( end quote )

This may refer only to booting from CD.  However, the PowerPC installation
script does keep referring to MSDOS partitions.  I also have independent
confirmation from one other G4 Cube user that the MSDOS partition is
required; another user notes that Open Firmware on G4 Macs does not
recognize UFS partitions.

John, what machine are you working with?  Can I see a copy of your fdisk and
disklabel output for comparison?

Thanks.  :-)


-- pmj