At 2:42 PM -0600 1/1/01, Dave Huang wrote:
>On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > I'm using
> > 	boot hd:,ofwboot.elf hd:10
> > all the time (on my Powerbook). It seems that it doesn't like the
> > postponed ",netbsd".
>
>I tried that, and it seems to always load the kernel from the HFS
>partition, regardless of the partition number. If I "boot
>hd:,ofwboot.elf hd:1234", it doesn't complain at all, and just goes to
>the HFS partition...

 From my ofwboot draft man page:  The partition number will be deleted 
on Open Firmware versions 1 and 2, and will be forced to zero on Open 
Firmware 3 or greater.

You can specify a partition number for where ofwboot comes from, but 
not for where ofwboot looks.


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