Thanks for the quick help, I'm giving that CD a shot. The floppies  
don't seem to work, I don't know if the floppies are bad, but it  
always complains about disk 2 not being in the volume set. After  
inserting it again, it coninues booting the kernel, but at some point  
it panics, probably due to the disk not being ok. And I've tried a  
dozen or so disks, though all being old.

Alright, so that CD doesn't work either, below I have pasted what is  
happening at the OF prompt, first the floppy debakle, then trying to  
boot from the CD.

Cheers,

  - DoG

> Open Firmware, 1.0.5
> To continue booting the MacOS type:
> BYE<return>
> To continue booting from the default boot device type:
> BOOT<return>
>  ok
> 0 > setenv real-base F00000  ok
> 0 > setenv load-base 600000  ok
> 0 > setenv auto-boot? false  ok
> 0 > reset-all
> Open Firmware, 1.0.5
> To continue booting the MacOS type:
> BYE<return>
> To continue booting from the default boot device type:
> BOOT<return>
>  ok
> 0 > boot fd:0 -
> OF_open bootpath=fd
> read stage 2 blocks: 0123456. done!
> starting stage 2...
>
>
>>> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.10
>>> (builds@works.netbsd.org, Mon Oct 24 22:31:34 UTC 2005)
>>>
> 4125672-
> Please remove disk 1, insert disk 2, and press return...
> Disk is not from the volume set?!
>
> Please insert disk 2, and press return...
> +191096=0x41e0ec
>  start=0x100000
> Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,  
> 2005
>
>     The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
>
> trap: kernel write DSI trap @ 0x1051c810 by 0x1edd9c (DSISR  
> 0x42000000,
> err=14)
> panic: trap
> rebooting
>
> EXIT called ok
> 0 >
>
>
>
> Open Firmware, 1.0.5
> To continue booting the MacOS type:
> BYE<return>
> To continue booting from the default boot device type:
> BOOT<return>
>  ok
> 0 > printenv
>
> little-endian?      false               false
> real-mode?          false               false
> auto-boot?          false               true
> diag-switch?        false               false
> fcode-debug?        false               false
> oem-banner?         false               false
> oem-logo?           false               false
> use-nvramrc?        true                false
> real-base           F00000              -1
> real-size           100000              100000
> virt-base           -1                  -1
> virt-size           100000              100000
> load-base           600000              4000
> pci-probe-list      -1                  -1
> screen-#columns     64                  64
> screen-#rows        28                  28
> selftest-#megs      0                   0
> boot-device         /AAPL,ROM           /AAPL,ROM
> boot-file
> diag-device         fd:diags            fd:diags
> diag-file
> input-device        ttya                ttya
> output-device       ttya                ttya
> oem-banner
> oem-logo
>   z 2C + 8CC '& 8 + BRpatchyn then ;;l-method else $call-parent then ;
> boot-command        boot                boot
>  ok
> 0 > boot scsi-int/sd@3:0,OFWBOOT.XCF loading XCOFF
> tsize=C860 dsize=28C bsize=25C0 entry=E00000
> SECTIONS:
> .text    00E00000 00E00000 0000C860 000000E0
> .data    00E0D000 00E0D000 0000028C 0000C940
> .bss     00E0D290 00E0D290 000025C0 00000000
> loading .text, done..
> loading .data, done..
> clearing .bss, done..
>
>
>>> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.10
>>> (builds@works.netbsd.org, Mon Oct 24 22:31:34 UTC 2005)
>>>
> read header
>  start=0x0
> DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00300
>  ok
> 0 >
>

On 18.11.2005, at 06:40, Chris Tribo wrote:

>
> I copied the official ISO data to /temp/burn and ran
>
> mkisofs -A "NetBSD 2.1 macppc unofficial" -N -L -l -o  
> macppc_unofficial.iso -P "Unofficial Unsupported" -p "Unofficial  
> Unsupported" -R -r -V "NetBSD macppc 2.1 unofficial" /temp/burn
>
> http://user.dtcc.edu/~ctribo/macppc_unofficial.iso
>
> RMD160 (macppc_unofficial.iso) =  
> 3093aa3dc5f0c1130ec3d7870baa4757c1662c75
> MD5 (macppc_unofficial.iso) = 050e6a07871d62f518686dba17c8c054
>
>
> I tested it on my Beige G3, sort of.
> boot command for me was just boot ide1/@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF
>
> ...