Has anyone looked into the possibility of creating a bootstrapper program
that could be located on a local HFS disk, which would simply turn around
and use OF to find the NetBSD partition and load a real kernel from it?

I'm thinking of something like the 'boot wd0a:netbsd in 5 seconds' banner
that initially comes up when you boot an i386 machine.

This would allow us to do proper local booting of iMac's and G3's, even if
it means having a teeny HFS partition so the booter has somewhere to live.
(We could set up that partition on one machine and 'dd' the image into a
file for use by the NetBSD installation goo for macppc.)

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com