In <v03130303b6e3fba03fd5@[10.0.131.3]>
mw@blobulent.com wrote:

> At 8:09 PM +0200 3/25/01, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

> :)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?
> 
> Correct.  OF < 2.4 can *only* load xcoff files from ISO 9660, network,
> MS-DOS, or partition 0.

What does "partition 0" mean? I believe bootxx loads
"raw" ofwboot binary, which is not xcoff.

OF-2.x loads bootxx binary which is addressed
in the Apple partition map.
See macppc/stand/installboot/installboot.c:writeapplepartmap().
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Izumi Tsutsui
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