port-macppc: using nvram(2) to boot NetBSD installer: possible??

Subject: using nvram(2) to boot NetBSD installer: possible??
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/10/2002 11:26:24

I'd like to setup NetBSD on a 2 Gb disk on a B&W G3. I just stumbled 
onto this and would be interested to know if I could do all my 
OFmonkeywork within OS Xm using pdisk and nvram?

stuff like this looks promising.

EXAMPLES
              example% nvram boot-args="-s rd=*hd:10"

       Set  the boot-args variable to "-s rd=*hd:10".  This would
       specifiy single user mode with the  root  device  in  hard
       drive partition 10.