On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Jeff Arenberg wrote:

> My G3 running OF 2.0f1 simply won't read ofwboot or netbsd for the ide bus
> HD or CD.  I've tried every patch to the nvram and all I every get is 'Can't
> Open ...'.  So I've given up on that approach.  I can however boot from the
> floppy drive.  Once booted from that I can run the sysinst and get NetBSD
> copied to my HD.  So what I want to do is create a new boot.fs disk that
> will load the kernel and mount my HD as / and /usr and proceed from there.
> Problem is, I can't find any documentation on the website on how to create
> the boot.fs file (which is a DiskCopy file).  Nothing in the /usr/sys tree
> either.  Please help.

Check out /usr/src/distrib/macppc/floppies

Take care,

BIll