Hmm, that didn't work. It can't find /netbsd. I think ofwboot.elf is
trying to read from an ffs, right, not HFS (that's why I fed it boot.fs and
got a few magic numbers)? I have no way of building a file system on the
IDE drives. Booting the ramdisk kernels directly either give me CLAIM
FAILED or they LOAD-SIZE too small.
	Perhaps I could build an fs image on my alpha, and stick a few kernels in
there to try to boot from ofwboot.elf; can someone tell me how to go about
making an image / mounting it? Thanks

Gregory

--On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 9:11 PM -0400 Chris <talon16m@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
>     I think what you need to try is boot zip:,ofwboot.elf and then boot
> zip:,netbsd with the kernel from kern.tgz in the root of your ZIP
> 
>     ofwboot.elf is expecting a NetBSD ELF kernel or a gziped ELF kernel. I
> don't think it will load the boot.fs disk image, last I heard, boot.fs had
> gotten too big to fit on a floppy in -current (someone correct me if I'm
> wrong). In either case, I don't think you could get boot.fs to work by
> writing it to your ZIP, netbsd/pmax has a diskboot file that you can DD to
> an HD or ZIP disk, but AFAIK macppc does not. BTW the ramdisk install
> kernel might work if you ungzip it and boot zip:,netbsd. Just some
> thoughts.
> 
> 
>     Chris
>