Hi,

I just got that mail and I think it belongs to this list

> From: William O Ferry <woferry@iname.com>

> (I read macppc via the web, so I'm not really equipped to quote from
> the thread)
>
> 	So far I have not had any luck trying to netboot my PowerBook,
> or boot it from it's internal HD.  I have the floppy drive for mine, and
> can boot off of that with no problems.
>
> 	In Open Firmware "boot enet" successfully does the bootp and
> tftp's the kernel, but the kernel then fails, and it seems fairly random.
> Some times it seems that it is starting to execute the ELF code then
> locks up, or it throws a DEFAULT CATCH, etc.  I've never gotten it to
> work, though the same setup netboots my new desktop G3 with no problems.
>
> 	I have heard that OF on these machines have problems with
> reading files off the internal IDE drive (it'll boot MacOS, but can't do
> much more).  I'd imagine it *might* be possible to tell it to boot using
> the particular sector that is the start of your NetBSD partition (much
> like what "boot fd:0" does), not sure if it would work though.
>
> 	I seem to recall that I was able to boot off a SCSI drive, if
> that is an option for you.  Hardly ideal for a notebook though.
>
> 	I am not sure if you can use a mediabay Zip or LS-120 devices or
> such.  It's possible that OF doesn't even know how to talk to one of
> these things I'd guess.
>
> 	FWIW once you have the kernel booted life gets much easier.  I
> have run the userland over NFS, the internal IDE, external SCSI, all
> with no problems.  The big hangup is just getting the kernel loaded.
>
> 	Good luck, if you find a way I'd love to hear it!
> 								Will
>