You need output " screen" in your boot command, or some incantation  
thereof. It's in the archives, but I'm too busy to hunt for it ATM.

On Aug 9, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Stephen Borrill wrote:

> To see whether my G4 booting problems were down to some partition  
> table error (disklabel was giving a couple of odd partitions), I  
> took a second disk of which I cleared the start with dd if=/dev/ 
> zero and did an installation from scratch. It manually boots fine  
> now. I've set boot-device (hd:ofwboot.xcf), boot-file (hd:3,/ 
> netbsd) and boot-command (boot). If I stop in OpenFirmware and type  
> boot it works fine, but if I try to get it to boot automatically,  
> it hangs at a white screen. Any ideas?
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> Stephen
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