Re: Setting the root partition for boot

To: Matt Wallis <mattw%madmonks.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: Setting the root partition for boot
From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:51:22 +0200

On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 03:48:49PM +1000, Matt Wallis wrote:
> Some of the documentation appears to suggest using hd:X as the root partition, i.e.:
> boot hd:,\ofwboot.xcf netbsd hd:4 

On my G4 I do: 

	boot hd:10,ofwboot.xcf hd:11,/netbsd

and that is a HFS+ partition at index 10 with ofwboot.xcf, but the kernel
at the root of the NetBSD root partition (index 11 in my setup).

That probably will not help with the non-workging keyboard though.

Martin

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