> Bill Studenmund wrote this:
> 
>>But try first copying ofwboot to /boot, and then trying
>>
>>/usr/mdec/installboot -v /boot /usr/mdec/bootxx /dev/rwd0a
>>                         ^^^^                   ^^^^
>>                the file ||||  needs to be on   |||| that device.
>>
>>So if you have /dev/wd0a at /mnt, use /mnt/boot. :-)
>
> Well, I did this, and I have installed NetBSD on a separate drive (which is
> connected as the slave device on the bus that hosts the CD). I tried
> different things in OF, but I'm lost as to what I should feed OF to make it
> boot from the BSD drive. Can anyone help, please?
> Regards,
> hcb
>
Someone out there must have netbsd booted from OF on either iMac or other G3
to let the rest of us into the secret of the boot syntax :)
I'm try to boot a ide hard drive I expect that SCSI or IDE will be very much
the same?


    Mark :)

ps.
    I'm running ok boot from NFS with local swap on the IDE just would like
to be able to pull out that ethernet ;)