Try: boot hd;,ofwboot.xcf hd:10,/netbsd
If that doesn't work try 9 or 11.

"partition" is a much-abused word, it means one thing in BSD (two if you
use it instead of "slice") and at least two completely different things in
Mac's. 

As far as OF is concerned, your "first" partition is probably number 9, but
YMMV. The early numbers are drivers and stuff.

-- Peter 

> Marc Baudoin at babafou@babafou.eu.org wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've just installed NetBSD 1.5.1 on my iBook (dual USB).
> Although I've been using NetBSD/i386 since the time of 386BSD, I
> must admit I'm a bit confused by the Mac environment so I'll ask
> a few questions during the next days (and I'll report on the
> install, during which I had a few problems).
> 
> But first I need some clues about the way to boot NetBSD from
> Open Firmware (which is OF 3, by the way).  I've got several
> partitions on my disk.  The first one is an HFS+ (just to play
> with Mac OS X), the second one is the NetBSD wd0a partition and
> so on.  As stated in the INSTALL file, I've copied ofwboot.xcf to
> the HFS+ partition.  The problem is I can't have it boot the
> kernel located on the FFS wd0a partition.  I thought using:
> 
> boot hd:,ofwboot.xcf hd:1,/netbsd
> 
> but it doesn't work.  I have to copy the kernel to the HFS+
> partition and make ofwboot.xcf load this last one:
> 
> boot hd:,ofwboot.xcf hd:,/netbsd
> 
> So, what is the correct syntax?