On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Hauke Fath wrote:

> Well -
> 	while you have the ROM at hand,
> 	while you have basic MacOS data structures initialized and
> 	while you have even already accessed the floppy with ROM code
> 		- to get the boot sector, that is
> 
> -- why not simply fire up the Device Manager, access .Sony and read in the
> kernel? Why would you want to use a _NetBSD_ device driver in that
> situation? There is no kernel running at that moment, is there? Or, what
> important detail am I missing?

I thought the reading of the miniroot after boot would need the kernel's
floppy driver. I certainly hope we don't ahve to wait for two 800K disks
to be fully read before we can start booting! :-)

You're right that to load the kernel, .Sony is the way to go.

Take care,

Bill