Thanks, that works, but I'd reinstalled. boot hd:10.ofwboot.xcf
hd:11,/netbsd works too, which I'd tried before. Who knows (or cares)?

Still slow though. Slows down between: boot device:wd0   and: root on wd0a
dumps on wd0b   lines in the opening dmesg. Screen refreshes parade down the
screen taking three or four seconds to get to the bottom. Anyone else had
this problem? Could I change the terminal type? Upgrade OF?

-- Peter Fairbrother


> Bill Studenmund wrote:

> 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
>