port-macppc: Re: Help! I just can't figure out how to boot NetBSD on my iMac DV

Subject: Re: Help! I just can't figure out how to boot NetBSD on my iMac DV
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/06/2001 17:45:11

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:53:43PM +0100, Lasse Hiller=F8e Petersen wrote=
:
> > On each of the HFS+ partitions, I have put
> > ofwboot.elf
> > ofwboot.xcf
> > netbsd.ram.gz
> > netbsd.ram (ungzipped above item)
>=20
> Maybe I missed something, but when did our bootloader learn how to
> speak HFS+? (And if our bootloader knows, why doesn't hfsutils?)

It hasn't. OF, which is what loads our ofwboot, however does speak HFS+.

Take care,

Bill