On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> Naively, I thought I could build a file system on the base disk and then 
> the Open Firmware would see that next time it booted and use that.  
> Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.

There is a little paragraph (5.2.2) about this in the Shark FAQ at
http://www.duh.org/shark. I'm not sure if this will solve your problem.

As I'll get a Shark soon and also want to boot it off a harddisk, I'd like
to hear from you how things are going.

So long, Markus