Dual booting OS X and NetBSD

[mortlocli]

where as Ive been having fun trying to get wifi working (I must say Im typing in instruction without knowing wot it means half the time..lol.)

my last attempt is following this:
'
dhcpcd=YES
wpa_supplicant=YES


/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:


ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel


network={
ssid="myssid"
psk="mypassword"
}'

..at here:

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..but with trying different ways, I keep getting a syntax error at the last closing "}":
' "}" unexpected.'

My brain is feeling fried after trying to sort a prob in Haiku-os ..so the error is very likely right under my nose !!! But tomorrows another day ?

oops - the single quote was my feeble attempt to separate message body text from cli text.
LOL - Guess that didn't work..I need to find a better way of doing that.

 

[Amethyst1]

oops - the single quote was my feeble attempt to separate message body text from cli text.

Put the CLI text in inline code tags — there is a button that looks like a box with >_ in it in the editor. CLI text will look much better then.

 

[barracuda156]

@barracuda156 I got the installer to boot from an external FW drive. Here is what I did.

1. Download the ISO file from http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/
2. Plug in the FW drive.
3. Get the drives disk number from Disk Utility. On mine it is "disk2"
4. dd the ISO to the external FW drive. On my system it looked like
   

   sudo dd if=NetBSD-10.0-macppc.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m

5. Plug the FW drive into the machine to receive NetBSD then boot it into open firmware mode.
6. Run "dev fw ls". In my case the result was
   

   0 > dev fw ls
   ff9d1040: /node@00b8cc143464243
   ff9d1268:    /sbp-2@4008
   ff9d14e0:      /disk@0
   ok

7. Use that to assemble the boot path.
   

   boot fw/node@00b8cc143464243/sbp-2@4008/disk@0:,ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc

I was able to boot fully into the installer. I have not yet tried doing an install as I want to keep my system as is, but I'll back it up and give it a go soon.

Thank you, I will try that.

 

[barracuda156]

@barracuda156 I got the installer to boot from an external FW drive. Here is what I did.

1. Download the ISO file from http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/
2. Plug in the FW drive.
3. Get the drives disk number from Disk Utility. On mine it is "disk2"
4. dd the ISO to the external FW drive. On my system it looked like
   

   sudo dd if=NetBSD-10.0-macppc.iso of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m

5. Plug the FW drive into the machine to receive NetBSD then boot it into open firmware mode.
6. Run "dev fw ls". In my case the result was
   

   0 > dev fw ls
   ff9d1040: /node@00b8cc143464243
   ff9d1268:    /sbp-2@4008
   ff9d14e0:      /disk@0
   ok

7. Use that to assemble the boot path.
   

   boot fw/node@00b8cc143464243/sbp-2@4008/disk@0:,ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc

I was able to boot fully into the installer. I have not yet tried doing an install as I want to keep my system as is, but I'll back it up and give it a go soon.

Does not work for me, unfortunately. First of all, if the command has `netbsd.ppc` or `netbsd` then it fails with no such directory. If I drop it, it tries to boot, but fails then like this:

 

[barracuda156]

@pipetogrep I bumped into a weird note here: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.1/macppc/INSTALL.html

Unsupported devices​

• On-board SATA controller on G5 systems (these machines must be netbooted)

So NetBSD is basically unusable on G5?