>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Schien <robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de> writes:

    Robert> After hours of playing with the open firmware I finally managed
    Robert> to get my PowerMac G3 (beige) (Firmware 2.0f1) booting from a 2.0 floppy.

    Robert> The system installed fine without any problems.

    Robert> But as I tried to boot from the IDE harddrive the boot prcess
    Robert> hung as soon as the stage 2 started. The - rotated a few times
    Robert> and then the system hung.

See

  http://netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html#g3v1

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