On Fri, 28 May 1999, Mark & Suzanne wrote:

> Hi All,
>     You probably saw my other post where I was chasing down ofwboot.elf - I
> now find that its not necessary in that my iMac boots from enet:0 however
> the B&W G3 400Mhz 256Mb ram does not it will boot small elf images but
> chokes on netbsd.   Anyway so I decide to try the iMac and sure enough boots
> from the enet  installs, nfs mounts from DU ok, everything installed but
> can't boot from the new ide drive.

How much memory is in the iMac? I think 256 MB is the max that macppc can
support at the moment.

>     The boot device is a 2G IDE disk.
> 0 > boot hd:0,0 DISK-LABEL: LOAD (noninterposed) not supportedload-size-0
> adler32=1
> 
> 
> LOAD-SIZE is too small
>  ok
> 0 >
> 
> 0 > boot hd:1,0 MAC-PARTS: specified partition is not valid
>   can't OPEN: hd:1,0
>  ok
> 0 >
> 
> So that looks like it finds the partition ok.
> I can reboot from the ethernet and mount /dev/wd0a and /dev/wd0g  as / and
> /usr so the labels ok from netbsd perspective. I've tried doing
> /usr/mdec/installboot  -v ofwboot bootxx /dev/rwd0a
Try 
/usr/mdec/installboot -v bootxx /dev/rwd0a   - you showed one too many
files above.

> but this seems to make no difference
> 
>     What have I missed ? or What am I doing wrong ?
> 
> 
>     Mark :)
> 
> ps.
>     My intention is to build a bootable netbsd disk on the imac and move it
> to the B&W

Should be fine.

Take care,

Bill

p.s. I put a copy of ofwboot.elf on
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/wrstuden/ofwboot.elf