Subject: Re: How to boot on a Mac 6400
To: Tsubai Masanari <tsubai@iri.co.jp>
From: fission <fission@mb.sympatico.ca>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/08/1999 17:27:23
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Tsubai Masanari wrote:

That would be nice if that was what I got when I used boot fd:0 -a. 
Unfortunately I get a "bad partition number, using 0" and that's the end
of that:

0 > boot fd:0 -a
RESETing to change Configuration!
bad partition number, using 0-

and then it just boots as it normally does (from the install disk in this
case).

> 0 > boot fd:0 -a 
> >> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.2
> ...
> Boot: ata0/ata-disk@0  
> 1170840+163484 [93+57744+46224]=0x15f518
>  start=0x100000
> ...
> (boot from hard disk)
> 
> or
> 
> 0 > boot fd:0 -a 
> >> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.2
> ...
> Boot: -a
> ...
> 
> boot device: <unknown>
> root device: wd0
> ...
> 
> (boot from floppy and chroot to wd0a)