What i don't like is that it does not tell you what is actualy
happening.  Kind of like Wndoz95, except for one thing you can press esc
when wndoz is booting and see all the mesgs.  Why can't the mac do
this?  It should at least be an option.  Heck NETBSD does it!

Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Mark DeArman wrote:
> >
> > > If you acctuly get it to work, say get a mac too be strait to NetBSD
> > > With NOOO MacOS will some one tell me?  Please?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > I don't think you boot NetBSD without mac OS unless One did replace the
> > two mac PROMs with some kind of revised EPROMS.
> 
> If you really want a unix computer that can't run MacOS, just go out
> and buy an i386 box! I mean that we paid extra for a computer which
> runs MacOS, and it seems a shame to throw that away.
> 
> Also, de-soldering chips on the motherboard sounds quite dangerous. Most
> macs since the IIci (certainly my IIsi) have a ROM SIMM slot. If there's
> a SIMM in that slot, then the internal ROMs are disabled. Since most
> NetBSD-capable macs have 32-bit data busses, you'll need 4 EPROMs.
> 
> But check out Inside Macintosh about disk setups. You can load boot
> drivers off of hard disks well before MacOS has started up (that's
> how MacOS actually boots)! So just change it.
> 
> What don't people like about the MacOS boot? You can make a minimal
> system w/o extentions and put the booter int he Startup Items folder.
> Then NetBSD will come up automatically.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Bill