At 11:40 AM +0000 4/25/03, Jozef Remen wrote:

:)Hi
:)I created a CD to serve as a HFS boot disk (containing ofwboot.xcf
:)and netbsd) to load netbsd kernel from installed NetBSD on a
:)entirely formated hardrive, which was formated by NetBSD sysinst.
:)
:)MacOS X pdisk show me this list of partitions:
:)1 ApplePartitionMap
:)2 NetBSD disk

Whatever partition number pdisk shows you is the partition number you
should use in Open Firmware.

For example on my PowerBook (FireWire), I have:
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/ata2.0' (/dev/hde)
 #:                type name              length   base     ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple                 63 @ 1
 2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh             56 @ 64
 3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh             56 @ 120
 4:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh             56 @ 176
 5:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh             56 @ 232
 6:      Apple_FWDriver Macintosh            512 @ 288
 7:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh            512 @ 800
 8:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition      512 @ 1312
 9:           Apple_HFS "Gizmobook"     25165824 @ 1824     ( 12.0G)
10:           Apple_HFS OSX              8388608 @ 25167648 (  4.0G)
11:           Apple_HFS Thingies         2506752 @ 33556256 (  1.2G)
12:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 netbsd           2807072 @ 36063008 (  1.3G)
13:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap              200000 @ 38870080 ( 97.7M)

So I boot with:
boot hd:9,ofwboot.xcf hd:12

  -- MW