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Booting Darwin 6.0.2 on Old World
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My machine is a G3/266 desktop, beige. I've managed to install the latest Darwin binary release from CD, and I can get to a shell from the CD. The installation notes say that the installer can't bless a device on an old world machine.
I was wondering if anyone knew how to bless it manually from the installation shell? If the device is /dev/disk0s6, what should I do?
TIA,
Fraser
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Originally posted by speirsfr:
My machine is a G3/266 desktop, beige. I've managed to install the latest Darwin binary release from CD, and I can get to a shell from the CD. The installation notes say that the installer can't bless a device on an old world machine.
I was wondering if anyone knew how to bless it manually from the installation shell? If the device is /dev/disk0s6, what should I do?
TIA,
Fraser
That doesn't make a lot of sense since OS X runs on Beige G3's just fine. Maybe you should install OS X first then try to convert to Darwin?
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I would investigate the "bless" command:
"man bless" will serve you well.
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man bless isn't really serving me all that well at the moment, I must say....
$ bless -device /dev/disk0s6 -format hfs -label "Mac OS X" -xcoff "/usr/standalone/ppc/bootx.xcoff"
results in...
/sbin/newfs_hfs: /dev/rdisk0s6: No such file or directory
Can't newfs_hfs /dev/disk0s6
Error while formatting /dev/disk0s6
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PowerBook G4 17"
Power Mac G4/800, 1Gb RAM, 80Gb HDD, Superdrive, GeForce 4MX, Gateway 21" CRT, Apple Pro Speakers, iSub - Running Mac OS X Server 10.2
iBook 500, 192MbRAM - Running Mac OS X 10.2
iPod 5Gb
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Caracas, Bolivarian Republic Of Venezuela
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Originally posted by speirsfr:
man bless isn't really serving me all that well at the moment, I must say....
$ bless -device /dev/disk0s6 -format hfs -label "Mac OS X" -xcoff "/usr/standalone/ppc/bootx.xcoff"
results in...
/sbin/newfs_hfs: /dev/rdisk0s6: No such file or directory
Can't newfs_hfs /dev/disk0s6
Error while formatting /dev/disk0s6
try just:
Code:
bless -setOF -folder /System/Library/CoreServices
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ooops - I didn't read your whole comment - you are still in the installation shell...
you need to find the mount point of your hard drive, try the command
and look for the last column in the line that starts with /dev/disk0s6, ie:
Code:
[localhost] root% df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s6 XXXXXX XXXX XXX XXXX /the/path
then the command would be:
Code:
bless -setOF -folder /the/path/System/Library/CoreServices
and reboot
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