I can tell you for certain that booting from floppy drive is impossible on
the 266 beige g3 model. It's one of the bugs in the OF code and will
probably never be fixed... HOWEVER booting from CD should theoretically be
completely possible..... its just a matter of finding someone who has done
it.

-Will Bendick

 On 5 Aug 2002, Christian Groessler wrote:

> Date: 05 Aug 2002 23:26:46 +0200
> From: Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>
> To: CompuDroid <droid@zoo-crew.org>
> Cc: cpg@aladdin.de, port-macppc@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Beige G3 266 Desktop Installation help needed
>
>
> On 08/05/2002 04:45:15 PM AST CompuDroid wrote:
> >
> >yes i just tried it again to be sure:
> >I zapped my PRAM
> >ran system disk in os9 set it to halt at the OF prompt.
> >setenv real-base F00000
> >setenv load-base 640000
> >boot scsi-int/sd@3:0,\OFWBOOT.XCF;1 NETBSD.MACPPC;1
> >..and once again I get the DEFAULT CACHE after
> >loading .text, done..
> >loading .data, done..
> >loading .bss, done..
> >
> >Someone help! I'm close to turning to the darkside... linux
>
> I'm already on the dark side with my Beige G3, OF 2.4. (Although there
> is still an empty partition reserved on it:-)
>
> I tried to boot from floppy, cd, hd and network, trying any variation
> of load-base, and always got the DEFAULT CATCH, too.
>
> Linux also wasn't able to boot directly from OF, only the method with
> BootX worked...
>
> regards,
> chris
>

-CompuDroid
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