Hi,

On 12/23/07, John Klos <john@ziaspace.com> wrote:
> My New York system has a 750 gig drive with an HFS+ partition on which
> there's a NetBSD install kernel and ofwboot.xcf. I set it up to boot from
> the NetBSD partition, /, which is the rest of the 750 gig (besides the
> HFS+ partition and swap), and it worked. However, when I tried to update
> the kernel recently, the system wouldn't boot past the bootloader.
>
> So... Is there any way that anyone knows to either read and write HFS+
> from NetBSD (to put the new kernel on there - and it can't be a solution
> which requires a new kernel)?

Is there any specific reason for the HFS+ partition to be HFS+ instead
of normal HFS?

You can try the "hfsutils" package; with it you can format a HFS
partition from NetBSD and copy the bootloader and the kernel to the
partition.

Greetings,
Marco.