on 11/29/99 5:47 PM, Bill Studenmund at wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Andy wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone have an idea what is the nature of the problem booting from
>> internal ide drive on  G3 266 ?
> 
> As far as I know, there is no specific problem with the internal IDE drive
> on a G3.
> 
> Assuming you have OFW version 2.4, the problem is the same as for the
> version 3 machines - OFW doesn't like our standard booting method!
> 
> This method is to embed bootxx (a very primitive boot loader) into a
> MacOS driver partition, and have it set up to load ofwboot. It no longer
> works.
> 
> I modified ofwboot recently to generate an .xcf version (XCOFF) which
> these machines should be able to load off of a file system. What this will
> need is a MacOS partition table, an HFS partition on one of them with
> ofwboot.xcf, and NetBSD partitions in the other MacOS partitions.
> 
> It's a work in progress - we need lots of tool work.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Bill
> 

    I haven't been able to boot my Beige DT/233 system yet either (OF v
2.0f1). I have a dedicated WD 4.3 GB HD with NetBSD installed. Let me know
if I can be of assistance. I also have a VS 3100/m30, DS 5000/200, and a DS
5000/240, all dual booting NetBSD 1.4.1 or Ultrix 4.5.

    Chris

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