Re: Netbooting a blue and white G3

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valeriy E. Ushakov)]

Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> I did install OpenBSD for the heck of it and it does create an MS-DOS
> partition called "i" (/dev/wd0i) and it has the ofwboot bootloader on
> it. So you point the firmware at it, pass in the kernel (in their case
> /bsd) and it goes. Very slick.
> 
> I'm guessing NetBSD should be able to do something similar? Maybe it's
> too hard to generalize the boot process like that?

This seems to pop up repeatedly.  I thought it should have been in the
FAQ already.

  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2007/02/26/0003.html

I use this on my b&w g3.  I haven't tried FAT instead of ISO9660.  I
also used it on ppc mini and there I did try FAT and couldn't make it
to work (but ISO9660 does work).

SY, Uwe
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