Q: boot problem on Mac G3

[RJM-3]

Hello:

Having followed closely the install and boot-up instructions, I find
my G3 Mac will not boot OpenBSD 4.5

Without going into firmware, the Mac boots to a small flashing graphic
of 2 faces and a question mark on a folder icon.

Anybody familiar with this and what might be the solution?

Thanks,
GandSnut

[Miguel-69]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:40 PM, RJM<gandsnut@...> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Having followed closely the install and boot-up instructions, I find
> my G3 Mac will not boot OpenBSD 4.5
>
> Without going into firmware, the Mac boots to a small flashing graphic
> of 2 faces and a question mark on a folder icon.
>
> Anybody familiar with this and what might be the solution?

You _need_ to go to the firmware. From your (small) description, it
looks like you have installed it using the whole disk. Thus, all you
need to do is, in the firmware prompt, type "boot hd:,ofwboot" and it
should boot.

If you want to boot directly, in the firmware you can:

setenv auto-boot? true
setenv boot-device hd:,ofwboot

Take a look at the INSTALL.macppc file
(ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.5/macppc/INSTALL.macppc).

--
Miguel

[RJM-3]

Miguel:

Thank you, that will solve it.  This does not match what is found on the
openbsd.org page for installation instructions.

Having gotten in to the system, now I can start X11 with startx and have
set up a .xinitrc file.  The window manager is "twm".

Any suggestion on how to change this to xfce4?

Regards,
Robert

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:40 PM, RJM<gandsnut@...> wrote:
> Hello:

> Having followed closely the install and boot-up instructions, I find
> my G3 Mac will not boot OpenBSD 4.5

> Without going into firmware, the Mac boots to a small flashing graphic
> of 2 faces and a question mark on a folder icon.

> Anybody familiar with this and what might be the solution?

You _need_ to go to the firmware. From your (small) description, it
looks like you have installed it using the whole disk. Thus, all you
need to do is, in the firmware prompt, type "boot hd:,ofwboot" and it
should boot.

If you want to boot directly, in the firmware you can:

setenv auto-boot? true
setenv boot-device hd:,ofwboot

Take a look at the INSTALL.macppc file
(ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.5/macppc/INSTALL.macppc).

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[Miguel-69]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:29 PM, RJM<gandsnut@...> wrote:
> Miguel:
>
> Thank you, that will solve it.  This does not match what is found on the
> openbsd.org page for installation instructions.

Great, good to know!

> Having gotten in to the system, now I can start X11 with startx and have
> set up a .xinitrc file.  The window manager is "twm".
>
> Any suggestion on how to change this to xfce4?

Something like "pkg_add xfce4" should do the trick.  But this is
something I have never done (I mean, installing xfce), so probably the
package name is wrong.  Try to find the package(s) name(s) in the
packages list (in the ftp site, for example).

--
Miguel