At 11:18 AM -0500 6/15/00, Bill Connell wrote:
>it is possible - i've got NetBSD booting from the hard drive on my
>PowerComputing machine (OF 1.0.5). I have separate hard drives for the mac
>and netbsd side, not sure if you have that option (i think it helps
>simplify things).

It does simplify things.  I have an some old 80MB disks I could use, 
but I'd like a bit more space than that on the MacOS side.

>anyway, if you can get into OF, just type "boot scsi/sd@0:0" to boot from
>hard disk (change the numbers to whatever disk has your netbsd
>installation on it). that's what mine uses anyway. you will probably get
>goot messages asking for the root device, just input those (return for a
>list of devs) and it should come right up.
>
>to automate this more, you can change the OF variables to always boot that
>device or to always boot to OF first to let you decide. i also have a
>slick Forth program (which OF uses) that will give you a simple 2-letter
>key option to boot either system from the OF prompt, also gotten from an
>older linuxppc install. i can send you details on that if you're
>interested.

I think that Apple's System Disk utility will do all that also.


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