Re: iBook G3 600: doesn't boot on CD 2

[John Gould <johng@powinv.co.uk>]

Hi Gilbert,
           IIRC there is a case problem with the 3.0 CD, you need to enter
OFWBOOT in upper case. It's in the archives somewhere. I have installed
3.0 on a ibook2 500 MHz machine but I had to enter OFWBOOT in
upper case. Arh, I've found it! See :-
'http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html'   downpage to macppc for 3.0

Regards John

John Gould - Systems Engineer
Power Innovations Limited
Tel: +44 1234 223002 email: johng@powinv.co.uk

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Gilbert Fernandes wrote:

> Hello,
>
> since last week I own an Apple iBook, running a PowerPC G3 at 600 Mhz.
> Machine has 256 Mb ram, and a DVD-reader and CD-Rom burner combo drive.
>
> I have inserted CD number two of OpenBSD 3.0
>
> 1. When I maintain pressed the "c" key it doesn't boot on the CD.
>
> 2. I go into Open Firmware. There, I try to load ofwboot from
> the CD-Rom root using this:
>
> boot cd:, ofwboot /3.0/macppc/bsd.rd
>
> The error message displayed is this:
>
> 0> boot cd:, ofwboot /3.0/macppc/bsd.rd load-size=35b adler32=35b001
>
> 3. I booted onto MacOS X. There, I mounted the CD-Rom. ofwboot
> file is there, but there is another "ofwboot" file inside
> /3.0/macppc so I have decided to load this one and ask it to
> load the BSD kernel at /3.0/macppc/bsd.rd using this:
>
> boot cd:, /3.0/macppc/ofwboot /3.0/macppc/bsd.rd
>
> The error message displayed becomes:
>
> boot cd:, /3.0/macppc/ofwboot /3.0/macppc/bsd.rd load-size=800
> adler32=b4baab7d
>
> When I type each command, the CD-Rom spins, this means I'm
> accessing the CD drive correctly. Then, the boot command finds
> the first ofwboot (size of 32 bytes ??) and also the one inside
> /3.0/macppc but it seems it does NOT recognize its contents
> which are probably PowerPC code.
>
> So, has people at Apple modified the Open Firmware so it no
> longer recognizes the ofboot contents as an executable one ? Or
> is the problem somewhere else ?
>
> If someone has the same machine, a hint please email me. MacOS X
> isn't too bad but I would feel "at home" under OpenBSD.  Well,
> I'm just addicted you know =)
>
> If you are currently at the Linux Expo in Paris come to see me:
> I'm at the "LOGIN" booth with my iBook hopelessly trying to boot
> OpenBSD so I can offer it the whole 20 Gb of the hard-disk,
> imploring me to install OpenBSD with its small hands.
>
> I will take pictures (about 10 of) the OpenBSD guys tomorrow
> morning at the Linux Expo OpenBSD booth: get there by 10 to 11
> am if you want to be on the pictures: OpenBSD T-Shirt is
> MANDATORY, get it ? Too bad Marc won't be there tomorrow though
> :o)
>
> --
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