In reply to your message of Thu, 02 Sep 2004 17:44:37 +0200:

I experienced success in getting the 1.6.2 ofwboot.xcf to boot a different
kernel when a) I had ofwboot.xcf in an HFS partition on a hard disk or ZIP
disk and b) I explicitly specified the kernel file as the second
parameter to the OFW boot command:
	boot [ofwboot path] [kernel path]
e.g.
	boot hd:9,\ofwboot.xcf hd:10/netbsd
In OFW 3.x I also change the boot command in nvram from boot-mac to just
boot.

AFAIK the GENERIC_MD is a skeleton kernel without full device support that's
only used during installation. Using the normal GENERIC kernel worked for
me.

YMMV,
	Paul

| Peter Bex wrote:
| > After a successful installation (Thanks to Robert Nesto's ofwbot.xcf) of Ne
| tBSD
| 
| Where can I find this ofwboot.xcf? I have used the 1.6.2 ofwboot.xcf, 
| but it can only load netbsd-GENERIC_MD.gz (2.0), and for some reason I 
| haven't been able to successfully boot off /dev/wd0a with that one.
| 
| 2.0 ofwboot.xcf crashes with a decrementer error and 1.6.2 ofwboot.xcf 
| loading netbsd-GENERIC (2.0) crashes with some other error (was it 
| memory-access-something?)
| 
| I'm, of course, trying this on an iBook G4.
| 
|      /Clacke

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