Subject: Re: Open Firmware and boot syntax
To: Peter Fairbrother <peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com>
From: Marc Baudoin <babafou@babafou.eu.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/20/2001 18:53:04
Peter Fairbrother <peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com> écrit :
> Try: boot hd;,ofwboot.xcf hd:10,/netbsd

That's it.

> "partition" is a much-abused word, it means one thing in BSD (two if you
> use it instead of "slice") and at least two completely different things in
> Mac's. 
> 
> As far as OF is concerned, your "first" partition is probably number 9, but
> YMMV. The early numbers are drivers and stuff.

In the same area, is there some decent documentation about Open
Firmware? The only stuff I could find was IEEE or Firmworks
documentation you can order from them (this is *not* free, of
course)...