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.

-- 
Loïc Hoguin
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