Subject: Re: Can OF-2.0.x boot at all? (was: Re: dual boot and OF-2.0.1)
To: Charlie Allom <charlie@rubberduck.com>
From: Emmanuel Dreyfus <p99dreyf@criens.u-psud.fr>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/25/2001 20:09:20
> sure, I've booted a few beige G3 desktops and towers, and my
> little Wall Street server :)
> where do you get up to?

I use the internal disk. It is devided into 3 partitions. Two HFS, and
the last one is FFS, on which I installed NetBSD. Of course, there is
also the Apple driver partitions that are invisible from the MacOS,
hence MultiBooter says my NetBSD partition is #11.

Currently, the NetBSD partition is labeled HFS in the partition table, I
wonder if this is a problem.

Question is: how do I boot NetBSD? As I understood, It's not possible
yet to boot directly from OF-2.0.4 when you have an Apple partition map.
Am I right?

Then my idea was to use the boot floppy to load the bootloader, and to
boot the kernel from hard disk: In OF boot with 'boot fd:0 -a' and enter
'ata0/disk@0:11' at boot prompt. It does not work. I tried various
partition numbers, I en up with "device not configured", or the
bootloader seeks a file on the floppy.

I also tried to have ofwboot.xcf on a DOS floppy. It loads and fires a
default catch. If I change load-base to 600000 and real-base to F00000,
it just power down after loading ofwboot.xcf

What should I do?

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus.  
Hiroshima 45. Tchernobyl 86. Windows 95. 
p99dreyf@criens.u-psud.fr