On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, charlie allom wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:13:16PM +0100, Martijn van Buul wrote:
> > 
> > I have a PowerMac G3/233DT, with the original 4 GB ATA disk, and a
> > 540 MB SCSI disk. I originally wanted to dedicate the 4GB disk to 
> > NetBSD, and the SCSI one to MacOS, but it turned out that NetBSD won't
> > boot from the ATA disk ("DEFAULT CATCH!"). It boots fine from the
> > SCSI disk, though.
> > 
> 
> i thought you could only share an HFS partition on newer world
> machines. please correct me if i'm wrong, someone.

?? "Share an HFS partition"? Our disklabel reading code is the same for
both, so NetBSD will read Apple partition maps. If you create APPLE_SVR2
partitions (like NetBSD/mac68k does), they will work as NetBSD ffs
partitions.

:-)

Take care,

Bill