Thanks for the tip (I think, it's been driving me nuts!! The original
program doesn't work with OF3).

I worked out a boot command ok (boot ultra1:ofwboot.elf hd:0,) (2 drives,
1MacOS, 1NetBSD on my G4 box - splitting a single drive comes later, I
hope), but when I put it into a program in boot-command OF replies that
ultra1:ofwboot.elf is not a recognised word. I can put the command into
boot-command by itself and it works fine though. If I put ultra1:ofwboot.elf
and hd:0, into boot-device and boot-file then I can't boot MacOS, "mac-boot"
boots NetBSD.

The reference you gave me suggests using 'eval' to pass parameters to 'boot'
in a program. Would this work? Any idea how to do this, or where I can find
out? I've looked at a _lot_ of Forth stuff but I'm not getting anywhere.

Thanks
Peter Fairbrother


> Bill Connell at connell@bitstream.net wrote:

> if you can work out the boot command, there's a FORTH program i used while
> playing with LinuxPPC a couple of years ago - it basically lets you choose
> whether to boot the Mac side or *nix side from an OF chooser. it works on
> my PowerComputing box... YMMV.
> 
> here's the page with the details about it:
> http://members.nbci.com/bsa89/quik/bootmenu.html
> 
> - Bill Connell
> 
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
> 
>> Also, would it be possible to patch OF so a 'sticky? key' (like holding C to
>> boot from CD) would allow booting into Mac OS or NetBSD? My Forth is too
>> rusty and my understanding of OF too limited to try this myself. And Apple
>> keep changing OF...
>