Thanks Dan, the stuff worked.  unfortunately I get PCI-IDE timeouts.
According to the FAQ, I cant boot netbsd off the disk and use it as my
root as well.  Is there a way to specify the rootfs for the kernel on
the command line.  i.e., I could boot off the kernel off the net, but
mount the local fs as root?

Thanks
Sanjay

Dan Winship wrote:

> Later versions of OF don't seem to be able to boot off raw disk
> partitions. You'll need to boot ofwboot.elf off either the network, or
> an HFS/DOS/ISO9660 partition, and have it boot netbsd for you.
>
> So, something like
>
>     boot enet:0 ide0/disk@0:0
>
> Or
>
>     boot /path/to/HFS/partition:#,ofwboot.elf ide0/disk@0:0
>
> (you don't need the /netbsd. ofwboot.elf knows that much.)
>
> -- Dan