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 -- Allen Briggs | http://www.ninthwonder.com/~briggs/ | briggs%ninthwonder.com@localhost
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