Subject: Re: How to boot netbsd on iMac...
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Emre <emre@srengineering.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/28/2001 14:05:24
On Sunday 28 January 2001 08:22 US Central Time, Todd Vierling wrote:

> On OFW 3, you need at least a small OFW partition containing "ofwboot.xcf"
> and/or "ofwboot.elf" (which one doesn't really matter).  OFW 3 will,
> unfortunately, only load a file in OFW from a HFS partition.
>
> Then the boot command is something like
>
>   boot hd:0,ofwboot.xcf
>
> The README should explain this in a section entirely separate from the OFW
> 1/OFW 2 boot install instructions.

So does that mean that I have to reinstall NetBSD, specify the first 
partition as HFS, and copy the ofwboot.elf or ofwboot.xcf file onto that 
partition?  Does the installer support that filesystem?

Cheers


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