yes. I have the same problem, I tried installing netbsd, linuxppc on my g3
266, no luck, it is still not working.
simply OF says: can't open <device>

a couple of more tries and I'll give it up..

Regards,

Igor N. Green

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Andy wrote:

-->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
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-->>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
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