Chris,

I got the system disk and clicked save to update it, that's what it said 
to do in the FAQ on the website anyway.  I'm not sure that did anything 
at all.  I found the nvramrc patch for a beige g3 233 but I have a 333, 
is the patch different?  I think it was you that posted it in fact.

I'm booting from an external SCSI disk with the kernel and install files 
on it.  For some reason when I specify the disk to boot from and type 
boot at the OF prompt it says no HFS partition and won't boot. 

Thanks,
Jason


Chris Tribo wrote:
> Jason Berenson wrote:
>> Community,
>>
>> I have a beige g3 running OF2.0f1 and it won't let me boot off an 
>> external scsi hdd that doesn't have the netbsd kernel on an hfs 
>
> Do you have the system disk or startup disk nvram patches loaded? If 
> it doesn't have the kernel on it, how do you plan to boot it?
>
>> partition.  Is there a way to upgrade the OF to be 3.0 or the latest so 
>
> You have that backwards. OF 1.x and 2.x cannot read HFS period; while 
> 3.x will only read HFS. The only thing old world machines know are 
> ISO9660, FAT/MSDOS, netboot, and raw "partition zero" read. There's no 
> OF3 upgrade, the ROM is on a non-writeable DIMM stick. There are 
> different versions of 2.x for it, but none for 3.
>
>> that I can hopefully do this without using HFS?  I have MacOS 
>> installed now but I'd prefer not having it installed after I get 
>> NetBSD running.
>
> Old World machines won't work with HFS and never will. Just boot the 
> install kernel from something and run sysinst and you should be good 
> to go.
>