> I made the DOS partition start at 512 (and then 1024
> and then everything under 4096 wherethe obsd part starts),
> but never could I mount that DOS partition ...
Silly me, it's 1, not 512;
and it mounts, and the ofwboot is NOT there,
and not in the wd0i as designated by me either.
So there is no copy of ofwboot on my disk.
That is surely wrong.
> I will reinstall again, leaving the [a]uto disklabel untouched.
Yes, this creates an 'i' entry for the DOS partition,
which gets the ofwboot alright, and I can boot it,
- just have to call it cd:,ofwboot in my OpenFirmware
(or setup a devalias).
When I do edit the disklabel during the install,
but leave the 'i' untouched, or set one up that
spans the (fdisk) DOS partition, the ofwboot gets
installed to the right place too.
So my conclusion is that you _need_ to have this
partition in your disklabel; right? And the hd/cd
confusion of my OpenFirmware has nothing to do
with this, right?
That would make the following paragraph
from INSTALL.macppc not entirely accurate:
For dedicated disks, macppc port boots off a boot program in
an MSDOS filesystem. This is set up by the install program
and no special setup is required.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If I am right, should the 'i' partition
that seems to be needed for a proper copy of the ofwboot
be mentioned in INSTALL.macppc or perhaps
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#InstProb
?
Would other architectures that require some
special partition to boot be affected similarly?
Jan
