Subject: Re: OpenFirmware 3 Boot Problem
To: Daniel Eggert <danieleggert@mac.com>
From: Marco <toad@arsystel.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/23/2005 19:03:49
Oops, sorry... :P

"hd:1" should be "Apple_Partition_Map", so:

boot hd:2,ofwboot.xcf hd:3,/netbsd

Cheers,
Marco

:P

On Feb 23, 2005, at 6:56 PM, Marco wrote:

> Hi...
>
> You can try:
>
> boot hd:0,ofwboot.xcf hd:2,/netbsd
>
> (If kernel is "/netbsd").
>
> Cheers,
> Toad.
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2005, at 6:53 PM, Daniel Eggert wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just installed NetBSD 2.0 onto my Mac mini, but I can't get OF to 
>> boot it.
>>
>> Partitions on the disk are
>>   1  HFS+
>>   2  UFS, /
>>   3  swap
>>   4  UFS, /usr
>>
>> I put ofwboot.xcf onto the first (HFS+) partition.
>>
>> I try to boot with
>>> boot hd:1,\ofwboot.xcf
>> but not matter what partition number i use (1-12), all I get is
>>   MAC-PARTS: specified partition is not valid can't OPEN 
>> hd:1,\ofwboot.xcf
>>
>> What's all that about?
>>
>> /Daniel
>>
>