>> There is an alias for hd but a boot hd gets
>> 
>> MAC-PARTS: can't find a default partition can't OPEN: hd.
>
> "MAC-PARTS" means it's an error in the partition map-reading part of
> openfirmware.
>
> You can say "boot hd:#" to tell it what partition to boot off. "0" is
> the raw partition, which is probably what you want. If it fails,
> you're beyond the realm of what I've learned so far.
>
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.

    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
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