openfirmware boot into new install...

[jt]

WHOAAAA!! hold your horses =3D)

command + option + O + F =3D the command sequence for OpenFirmware

sounds like you have a second harddrive and need to find the =20
openfirmware alias for this device... devalias in OF should help you =20
in determining what your second HD is on the machine

OF interacts with HFS volumes so thats the catch in all of this =20
ish...namely we cannot tell OF to look into our UFS for =20
freebsd....also your volumes are titled HFS which is apples =20
concoction of a few FS's FFS and UFS etc...are those the right =20
volumes?? something seems funky.....

once you copy this loader to the MAIN hd...presuming you have os x on =20=

there still and have the loader in the root directory of your primary =20=

HD and partition (which again must be HFS) -- you can load your =20
kernel via a command similar to

boot hd:,\loader devaliasdevice:partition in which the kernel should =20
be searched

specifically for me (with the MY alias acquired via the devalias =20
command)

0> boot hd:,\loader ultra1:5

this says boot the loader on the first harddrive in the root =20
directory (boot hd:,\loader) and then the second parameter ultra1:5 =20
tells the loader and openfirmware where to locate the kernel and =20
required boot time material

--hope that helps

-jt

On 23 Nov 2005, at 17-5-100GMT-05:00, #kirm3s# wrote:

> ok...
> got my partition table or what pdisk tells it is :
>
> Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/rdisk1'
> #: type name length base ( size )
> 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
> 2: Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_1 209720 @ 64 (102.4M) # should be /=20=

> var fdisk told is too small for / i think....
> 3: Apple_Free 262144 @ 209784 (128.0M)
> 4: Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_2 1835008 @ 471928 (896.0M) # =20
> should be my swap
> 5: Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_3 524288 @ 2306936 (256.0M) # =20
> should be /
> 6: Apple_Free 262144 @ 2831224 (128.0M)
> 7: Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_4 36008952 @ 3093368 ( 17.2G) # =20
> should be /usr
> 8: Apple_Free 16 @ 39102320
>
> Device block size=3D512, Number of Blocks=3D39102336 (18.6G)
> DeviceType=3D0x0, DeviceId=3D0x0
>
> what would you suggest should work for :
>
> 0> boot cd :, =DA boot =DA loader hd:11 ???
> thx,
> #kirm3s#
>
>
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