On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Emiel Kollof wrote:

> I know this was mentioned a few months ago, but that discussion fizzled
> without any useful results...
>
> Why isn't the NetBSD macppc iso bootable by just holding 'c' on the
> keyboard? Why doesn't NetBSD-macppc use a OpenFirmware Boot partition
> like the linuxen do? I still think it would be seriously cool if one
> could make the NetBSD boot process just as straightforward as the linux

Because none of us have sat down and figured out how to do it.

> one. Linux uses yaboot for newword machines, could we too?

Not that I know of. I believe yaboot (and the other booters) shut down
(quiesce (sp?)) OF. We want to run w/ OF still active. :-|

Take care,

Bill