At 5:03 PM -1000 3/3/01, Dave Low wrote:
>My Actual experience with trying the above and something Todd wrote:
>
>0> boot cd:,ofwboot.xcf <return>  (then) /load-size=d4c4 adler32=1956c83a
>
>loading XCOFF
>
>tsize=bf00 dsize=14e4 bsize=1608 entry=600000
>
>.text  00600000 00600000 0000bf00 000000e0
>.data  0060c000 0060c000 000014e4 0000bfe0
>.bss   0060d4e8 0060d4e8 00001608 00000000
>loading .text, done..
>loading .data, done..
> >>NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.2
> >> (mat@duel.local, Thu Nov 16 17:26:57 PST 2000)
>open: no such file or directory
>open /pci@f2000000/mac-io17/ata-4@1f000/disk@1:0/netbsd: no such file or
>directory
>
>Boot:

Try non-zero partition numbers.  Hmmm. No ofwboot won't allow that will it?

Actually what happens if you just try booting the kernel directly? 
That isn't reliable, but it might work.  In that case you would 
probably need to figure out what the real partition number is.  It'll 
be something like 4 or greater.


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