On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 07:52:01AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > This is my last MacOS disk. It has no Linux on it. I suspect that if I > > run the Make Hard Disk Bootable menu item that will be the end of MacOS. > > No, writing the boot block does not kill MacOS. You just have to type > bye from OF to get back to MacOS, because all these Macs were ROM-based.
'cept OF doesn't listen to me;-( Anyway, MacOS is now exterminated. > > (Of course, if there is no MacOS on the disk, it will have nothing to > boot into -- but anyway writing the boot block is harmless in itself.) > > > I think I'll initialise this disk and see what happens. > > Hope it works better. The disk is booting, I'm educated and there are ducks swimming in my backyard;-)) > > > NetBSD is supposed to boot, but I have the CD and can't boot it. Neither > > does it appear to try to boot off the LAN when I hold done "n" as > > described at > > http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.macppc.html > > That is only for NewWorlds AFAIK. It talks about Open Firmware 1.0.5, and that's what I have: The syntax used for netbooting varies depending on Open Firmware version. In Open Firmware 1.0.5, 1.1.22, 2.0.x, and 2.4 you will need to type one of: 0 > boot enet:,ofwboot.xcf 0 > boot enet:,ofwboot.xcf netbsd.ram.gz #to specify a kernel other than "netbsd" 0 > boot enet:192.168.1.5,ofwboot.xcf netbsd #if having trouble getting all info from bootpd I'll have to try that on my 7500: it talks to the screen on that system. > > -- Cheers John Summerfield Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from Debian addresses.
