On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, John Ryan wrote:

> I'm new to both Macs and NetBSD.  I've got one of those beige coloured G3s
> with an ATA disk.  I've managed to get to an open firmware boot prompt and
> it reports to be Open Firmware 2.4
                                 ^^^
For some reason we don't understand, boot floppies don't work with this
version of OF. :-(

> When I put this disk in my G3 and type boot fd:0 it replies with "CLAIM
> failed"  I've tried several disks and the floppy drive seems to work under
> MacOS.

Please try setenv LOADBASE 6c0000 (or is it LOAD-BASE?) before trying the
floppy. I have no idea if this will work, but it's the only thing I can
think of.

Take care,

Bill