Subject: Re: newfs is blowing my hfs
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/06/2001 17:41:55
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> An attempt has been made to create boot blocks which will load 
> ofwboot without understanding any filesystem.  Unfortunately we don't 
> know how to get those boot blocks recognized by the boot process in 
> general, only for the specific case of a NetBSD-only disk.

Said boot blocks only work on OF 2.0 and earlier.

Installing said boot blocks blows away the hfs partitioning. ;-)

> This makes it sound like the standard sysinst process should have 
> doen what you wanted.  Or am I missing something, like the standard 
> process doesn't work for OF 3 machines?

The standard process does not work for OF 3 macines.

Take care,

Bill