At 12:53 AM +0200 7/22/02, Xavier HUMBERT wrote:
>You wrote :
>
>>  Is there some OF trickery I can perform to get this machine to delay
>>  booting until the drive is spun up?
>
>Yes, have a look at :
><http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/SystemDisk-tutorial/>
>and especially "NVRAM patches"
>
>>  The other issue is, I'd like to have the machine boot after a power
>>  failure without someone having to hit the power button;  does anyone
>>  have any suggestions how to accomplish this?
>
>There a couple of tricks with the power supply. I heard about an ADB
>strap or something similar.
>
>For this problem, you may have an answer on some comp.sys.mac.* group.

Boot into MacOS and look at the detailed settings in the Energy Saver 
control panel.  The hardware setting to reboot after a power failure 
will survive switching back to NetBSD.
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