> All this discussion about video modes and partition types got me 
> confused. Is it required to have Apple partitions and a bootable 
> MacOS to run NetBSD? Is there no way for NetBSD to set video modes 
> itself and to boot directly? I'd really prefer that...

Yes, and yes. At present MacOS is needed to initialise the hardware. There
is work in progress to allow self-booting on some systems, but such things
would naturally be hardware-specfic.

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