At 5:09 PM -0700 2/6/01, Parker wrote:
>flavors") is not a happy puppy with NetBSD 1.5. No matter what I try I'm
>getting my hfs partition blown away and hence can't reboot into NetBSD unless
>from a CD etc. which as a web server in a production environment is obviously
>not acceptable!  Hehe! I wish I didn't need the hfs partition at all, but I
>guess I do for this machine with OF3.

Well with Bill S's clarification here's a capsule summary of what's happening:

1) With OF 3 you can't use the boot blocks created by the standard 
installboot program.  They only work with OF 1 and OF 2.

2) The standard installboot program also destroys the existing Apple 
Partition Map for the disk in favor of a dummy one indicating a 
NetBSD disklabel.

3) You don't need the standard boot blocks because OF 3 is smart 
enough to load a program directly from an HFS partition, and NetBSD 
(and 1.5 ofwboot) is smart enough to understand an Apple Partition 
Map if it ever gets booted in the first place.

Therefore what you need to do is partition your disk with the Apple 
tool so it has three partitions:  a small HFS one to hold either 
ofwboot.xcf (or ofwboot.elf), a larger one as A/UX swap, and the rest 
as A/UX root & user.

You should be able to get into ofwboot by just putting it in the HFS 
partition and using 0 as the partition number inside OF.  Once you 
get that far my earlier message should apply.

I think this all equivalent to what the web site everyone points at says.


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