On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Peter Fairbrother wrote:

> I can boot a GENERIC.gz kernel on a MacOS partition, and it sees the fs and
> installed sets, root is on wd0a, so there is something there. Incidently the
> terminal is slooowwwww.
>
> Trying to boot (boot hd:10,ofwboot.xcf hd:11,bsd) causes OF (I assume) to
> give the error "MAC-PARTS: Specified partition is not validopen hd:11,bsd:
> Device not configured.".
>
> Any suggestions on how to mark the partition bootable/validopen/whatever (if
> that's the problem)?

Don't give a file name. By saying ",bsd", OF tries to open the file "bsd"
on hd:11. But OF doesn't know how to read ffs, so it can't.

If you just say "hd:11", OF will open that partition, and then we will
read the FFS on there, and find the "netbsd" kernel.

Take care,

Bill