On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 Keiki_Sunagawa@yokogawa.co.jp wrote:

> 99/08/19 10:20:39, Bill Studenmund  wrote:
> 
> > No one's gotten installboot to work under OF 3.X.X. :-( We have no
> > clue what's wrong, other than maybe Apple broke it somehow.
> 
> In my experience, OF 3.* doesn't allow a raw partition as bootable
> area.  There is a code to check if partition number is 0 in OF.
> 
> There are some plans that make small HFS partition where we put the
> kernel or second-stage boot loader to avoid this problem.  Older
> versions of OF also happy with HFS boot partition.  The other way is
> that implement our netbsd-boot OF command in FORTH and put it into
> nvramrc.

I think we'll do better to shove in a small HFS partition, and put
ofboot.elf on there.

I don't think it'd be very fun to write a full bootloader in FORTH.

Take care,

Bill