Difficulties installing 3.0 on Macintosh "Wallstreet" PowerBook

[John Todd <jtodd@loligo.com>]

Summary: Problems with three different methods of installing OpenBSD 
3.0 onto a Macintosh PPC "Wallstreet" Powerbook.


1) CDROM - I started out just trying to boot the CD-ROM via the Open 
Firmware, per the instructions.  Frustratingly, the WallStreet 
doesn't seem to have an OpenFirmware alias or device that is mapped 
to the CD-ROM drive.  I tried the obvious "boot cd:,ofwboot ..." and 
it fails with a "can't OPEN:" error.  I then went through the entire 
device tree (focusing on the "media-bay" devices) trying to boot from 
those.  No luck.  Apparently one cannot boot from the CD from the 
Open Firmware prompt, or if you can, it is non-obvious what the 
incantation is.  FWIW, I also tried booting everything on the 
"devalias" list that looked promising - same error occurs for most 
devices ("can't OPEN:")


2) Floppy - So, I formatted a floppy and put ofwboot onto it, and 
then tried putting bsd.rd... but they both wouldn't fit.   <sigh> 
Even trying to just "boot fd:" (without bsd.rd present on the 
diskette) leads to an error of "DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00300 at 
%SRR0: FF80AD0  %SRR1: 0000B070" which isn't encouraging.

Notes:  if I try "boot fd:,ofwboot /bsd.rd" I get a spinning cursor 
for a few seconds, ahdn then "can't OPEN: fd:,ofwboot"  I have tried 
the floppy in both media bays; the left bay seems to be completely 
dysfunctional.


3) NetBoot - I created a bootp and tftp server, and tried to get 
things to boot from there.  It apparently loads ofwboot, but then... 
crash.   I am able to use tftp to load the bsd.rd and ofwboot files 
correctly from a test machine.

Here's the error:

0> boot enet:,ofwboot /bsd.rd  file: 10.0.0.1,/tftpboot/ofwbootLoading ELF
DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00300 at   %SRR0: FF80AFD0   %SRR1: 00009070
   ok
0>

The MD5 checksums on ofwboot and bsd.rd are correct.


This is getting silly; does anyone have prior experience with the 
Wallstreet Powerbooks that can give some idea of how to get this 
thing working?

JT