Hi,

Well as I understand it the 68k macs boot from their ROM - hence to
completely replace MacOS, you have to replace the ROM. Knowing apple,
there are probably no guidelines on how to do this. Macs just weren't
designed to boot anything except MacOS...
Basically, do you really think it worth the trouble to spend months
hacking new ROMs/Boot Code? Just put a barebones MacOS to boot NetBSD, and
you're away. You wouldn't need much more than 5MB partition, or as I was
saying, a boot floppy...

Richie


On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Peter wrote:

> Richard UNGER wrote:
> >
> >You could make a boot floppy...
> 
> I intended to use only a harddisc. Floppy gives me cold feets :). Due
> mechanical inreliability and slow transfers. Besides hogging the drive.
> 
>        /Peter
> 
> >
> >Richie
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Peter wrote:
> >
> >> nigel@ind.tansu.com.au wrote:
> >> >> 
> >> >> *) Is it possible to automate the launch of the booter in MacOS, in the manner
> >> >>    of /etc/rc for unix.. ?
> >> >
> >> >	Yep.
> >> >
> >> >1) In the Booter, set "Auto Boot on Startup" (in the Startup dialog)
> >> >
> >> >2) If you are running System 7 or later, put the Booter program,
> >> >   or its alias, in the "Startup Items" folder of your MacOS disk
> >> 
> >> Maybe I should clarify, I meant to have bootblocks so that one doesn't need
> >> any MacOS partition at all. Ie only a few blocks in the beginning of the
> >> drive that tells the Mac/m68k how to boot NetBSD.
> >> 
> >>             /Peter
> >> 
> >> 
> >
> 
>