thus Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu> spake on Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:14:07 -0400 (EDT):

> > i) when being in OF is it normal that the HD is /not/ spinning?
> 
> No. Unless MacOS turned it off and you rebooted into OF... mine spins up
> straight away.

i made the machine cold start, HD spins, but...
 
> > ii) neither on / of the NetBSD iso nor in it's depths there's a file
> > called NETBSD.MACPPC (or similar)...
> 
> ofwboot is probably hardcoded to look in macppc/binary/kernel for it now.
> 
> 0 > dir ide1/@0:0

with CD in drive (and spun up) cannot open device,

same with ide0 (HD, spun up).

> .
> ..
> NETBSD-I.GZ
> OFWBOOT.XCF
> SETS
>  ok
> 0 > boot ide1/@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF loading XCOFF
> tsize=C860 dsize=28C bsize=25C0 entry=E00000
> ...
> >> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.10
> ...
> 
> If you can't get a dir of the file system then it's a hybrid ISO9660
> which AFAIK does not work with old world machines.