At 8:36 PM +0200 10/1/03, Xavier HUMBERT wrote:
>Michael Wolfson <michael@nosflow.com> wrote:
>
>>  > OF 3 machines have the ability to change boot disk (or even partition)
>>  > by holdign down the option- (or alt-) key during start up. Does NetBSD
>>  > support this? If not, what is lacking?
>>
>>  No, it would need some magic.  Most of that magic is detailed in the
>>  snag-key boot CD creation HOW-TO:
>>
>>  http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html
>
>Well, if I unnderstand that correctly, creating a small bootstrap
>partition, with a "fake system" containing the CHRP magic script will
>allow to choose Partitions an OSes at boot time ?

There is an interesting thread near the beginning of August on 
darwin-development, subject: "OpenFirmware hack to prevent ndrv from 
loading?" which includes the pointer for how to do this.

Figuring out the Forth code to actually do what you want is usually 
the hard part, but maybe not in this case.  It's just a boot command 
isn't it?
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