Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 19:10:44 -0400 (EDT)
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Message-Id: <199907292310.TAA13596@panix6.panix.com>
To: port-macppc@netbsd.org
Subject: Ultra ATA on B&W G3/400?
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Hi folks, 

        I have been netbooting my Blue & White G3 for a couple weeks now, 
and recently purchased an IBM ultra ATA disk to install NetBSD on. I didn't
have much luck with installboot (perhaps I was not giving OF the right
commands) but managed to get ofwboot.elf loaded, thanks to something
I spotted in the archive- my ATA disk has an HFS partition as well as
a NetBSD disklabel and partitions, and so I have managed to boot by typing 

'boot hd:5,ofwboot.elf hd:6'

where the HFS partition (with ofwboot.elf) is 5th on the disk. The second
'hd:' gets passed to ofwboot.elf, and then it brings up a kernel.
[I formatted the disk with Apple's Drive Setup, told it to give me a
500 MB HFS partition, looked at the partition table, and built a 
disklabel with wd0d being the HFS partition, and wd0a and wd0b in the
free space after the HFS partition.]