On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Markus Baeurle wrote:

: > Naively, I thought I could build a file system on the base disk and then 
: > the Open Firmware would see that next time it booted and use that.  
: > Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.
: 
: There is a little paragraph (5.2.2) about this in the Shark FAQ at
: http://www.duh.org/shark. I'm not sure if this will solve your problem.

Unfortunately, I have had life to deal with, which has kept me from doing
many things such as updating the unofficial Shark FAQ.

The solution:

- Make sure you have a MBR on the disk with partition type 165.  I'm not
  kidding.  (Incidentally, fdisk should probably be enabled for arm32.)
- Disklabel it.
- Bott disk:\netbsd, or hardlink /netbsd to /boot.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)