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Re: Booting a G3 iBook



On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:06:24AM -0500, T. M. Pederson wrote:
> I'm mystified as to how cd0 works when there's no cd0....

I presume that the firmware uses '0' as a unit number.

> Anyway. Another thing is, is this a multi-cd? Or a macppc
> only cd? IIRC, the multi-cd's won't work with the first form
> of the boot command, requiring something like:
> boot cd:\OFWBOOT.XCF NETBSD.MAC (possibly with the ;1
> appended to each part).

It's a macppccd.iso from the isos directory.

> > I found an OS X disk, and I'll try partitioning, etc.
> Good luck! (I had to install netbsd first so as to get at the
> mac's dvdrw to burn a bootable cd.... While I got ofwboot.xcf
> to work from cds and hds, I haven't gotten it to work over
> netboot.)

I was able to partition OK, but get the same result trying to
boot NetBSD.

I'll poke at it some more tonight.

-allen

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