On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Takeshi Shibagaki wrote:

> rnestor> Native disklabels are not supported in the mac68k port right now, just 
> rnestor> faked incore bsd style disklabels which are constructed from the Apple 
> rnestor> Disk Partition Map on boot.  So the only thing the disklabel command will 
> rnestor> do is display the current disklabel; it won't let you modify them.
> 
> OK, I see, but how fake? I cannot boot up kernel from native BSD partition, 
> because I cannot change fstype from HFS to 4.2BSD.
> 
> I would like to boot up from ATA disk, but not apply Mkfs, so I am embarrassed.

Assuming that you can build a kernel that supports ATA, you could try
to hardwire the kernel to root on the ata disk, changing

config          netbsd  root on ? type ?

to 

config          netbsd root on wd0c type ffs
                                  ^
                                  |__ or whatever works


get this kernel into the Booter folder, and use the booter's "Boot
from a MacOS file" option.


Frederick