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Hello,

On Mar 16, 2007, at 21:22, Loic Hoguin wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:24:05 +0100, Magnus Henoch <mange@freemail.hu> 
> wrote:
>
>> "Loic Hoguin" <essen@dev-extend.eu> writes:
>>
>>> - I read on the mailing lists here[1][2] some interesting things 
>>> about
>>>   booting NetBSD directly ; but since I wasn't here at the time I may
>>>   not fully understand what they're trying to accomplish. So here's 
>>> my
>>>   question: can NetBSD boot from an iBook G4 with OFW3 without having
>>>   to type boot in OFW?
>>
>> Yes.  I set boot-device to 'hd:3,\ofwboot.xcf', boot-file to
>> 'hd:5,/netbsd', and boot-command to '" screen" output boot'.  The
>> first path refers to ofwboot.xcf in the root of my Mac OS partition,
>> and the second to the kernel in my NetBSD root partition.  The third
>> setting is needed to initialize the display.
>
> Thanks for the tip, it worked. I guess I was missing the '" screen" 
> output'
> part last time. I made a 32MB HFS partition with only ofwboot.xcf at 
> hd:2,
> a swap and netbsd partition. And it works like a charm.

Another thing you may want to play with - one of the results from 
2005's Google Summer of Code was a HFS+ filesystem implementation which 
finally found its way into NetBSD. So far it's read only though.

have fun
Michael
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