Subject: Re: Booting NetBSD 1.6.2 on iBook (snow)
To: Michael Johnson <kaiser@mac.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/08/2004 09:55:04
At 9:26 AM -0500 3/8/04, Michael Johnson wrote:
>NetBSD boot trouble...
>
>I just installed the system from scratch.  Everything was going 
>well, booted from the CD, formatted the disk, installed the OS from 
>CD, set the root pw and all that.  Now, time to boot.  No-go
>
>After some study, I think I've found the reason.  OF 3 won't 
>partition zero boot.
>
>I'm ready to start over with the install on the machine, but I don't 
>know how to get it to format at HFS+ since the only options given in 
>the setup on the install CD are swap, BSD, and msdos.
>
>Where do I go from here?

Partition/format with MacOS tools.  Create an A/UX root and swap 
partition, and an HFS partition for the ofwboot.xcf.  Skip the 
formatting step in sysinst.
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