PowerPC start-up and shutdown of openBSD

[Colin Comollatti <col_(_at_)_quoll_(_dot_)_net>]

G'Day All

Problem:

1. Can not get openBSD to automatically start at boot up.
2. Can not get openBSD to shutdown properly.

Description:

1. When the computer starts depending on the following attempts the 
system will hang or go into open firmware.

2. When I use "shutdown -h now" the system shuts down ok, UNTIL when 
it goes to turn the computer off. It stops at the same white screen 
as open firmware with "> exit". I am not able to do any thing once 
this has happened but turn the computer off at the wall.

Attempts:

Gone into PowerPC open firmware and changed the following settings

setenv boot-device ultra0:,ofwboot /bsd
setenv boot-device hd:,ofwboot /bsd
    Both of these seem to do nothing.

setenv auto-boot? false
    This would cause the system to boot as far as open firmware.
    Typing "boot" at the prompt loads and runs openBSD.

setenv auto-boot? true
    This would cause the system to hang with a gray screen.

System:

openBSD 2.9
Macintosh PowerPC G4
128Mb RAM
Gigabit ethernet
20G Hard Drive
 1M   dos partition
 80M  /
 512M swap
 1G   /tmp
 1G   /var
 2G   /usr
 14G  /home


I have been using Yellow Dog Linux and was trialing out openBSD for 
security reasons

Thank you for your time

Col Comollatti

email: col_(_at_)_quoll_(_dot_)_net
web:   www.quoll.net
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Thank You

Colin Comollatti

Quoll.net

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