So for the time being those who have a beige G3 are stuck?
Or is there some work in progress booter that can be downloaded?
Thx,Andy


>On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Andy wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have an idea what is the nature of the problem booting from
>> internal ide drive on  G3 266 ?
>
>As far as I know, there is no specific problem with the internal IDE drive
>on a G3.
>
>Assuming you have OFW version 2.4, the problem is the same as for the
>version 3 machines - OFW doesn't like our standard booting method!
>
>This method is to embed bootxx (a very primitive boot loader) into a
>MacOS driver partition, and have it set up to load ofwboot. It no longer
>works.
>
>I modified ofwboot recently to generate an .xcf version (XCOFF) which
>these machines should be able to load off of a file system. What this will
>need is a MacOS partition table, an HFS partition on one of them with
>ofwboot.xcf, and NetBSD partitions in the other MacOS partitions.
>
>It's a work in progress - we need lots of tool work.
>
>Take care,
>
>Bill