Trouble booting off hard disk on iBook G4

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Subject: Trouble booting off hard disk on iBook G4
From: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 02:13:08 +0000

Hello

I try to boot NetBSD 9.2 on an iBook G4.

A CD with ofwboot.xcf and netbsd.macppc boots fine from OpenFirmware with
boot cd:,\ofwbot.xcf netbsd.macppc

The hard disk has an HFS partition with ofwboot.xcf on the root, and 
a NetBSD FFS partition that contains netbsd.macppc. I try to boot with
boot hd:,\ofwbot.xcf netbsd.macppc

ofwboot.xcf find and loads the kernel, which then hangs after displaying
a single line about lack of ADB support, assumoing USB keyboard.

I am a bit surprised that the same ofwboot.xcf/netbsd.macppc can load
from cd and not from hd. What am I doing wrong?

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu%netbsd.org@localhost

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