Greetings,

How do you set the OF boot commands to boot from the HFS+
partition bootloader directly to the netbsd kernel?

Salaam (Peace),

Vickie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Wolfson" <mw@blobulent.com>
To: "Michael A. Smith" <msmith@code-fu.com>
Cc: <    >
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: first naive question of the day


> At 11:20 AM +1000 7/24/01, Andrew White wrote:
>
> :)> Not really, unless you netboot.  Cubes (and all Open Firmware 3
systems)
> :)> require an XCOFF or ELF bootloader located on an HFS or HFS+
partition,
> :)> and partitioning using a MacOS tool.
> :)
> :)You can fudge this by setting up a system as for dual-boot, but just
> :)"forget" to make room for MacOS partitions except a tiny one to put the
> :)bootloader on.  You then set the OF boot commands to boot from the HFS+
> :)partition bootloader directly to the netbsd kernel, and you're done.
>
> Right, I was trying to get at the fact that you still need to boot MacOS
to
> format your drive and put ofwboot.xcf on an HFS(+) partition.
> NetBSD/macppc doesn't yet have native tools to do the
> partitioning/formatting, and the tools to copy files to an HFS partition
> aren't part of the installation set.
>
>   -- MW
>
>