Subject: Re: ofwboot.xcf?
To: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@clank.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/11/2000 01:52:37
On 3/28/00 6:14 PM, Chris Tribo <talon16m@hotmail.com> wrote:

> on 3/28/00 5:49 PM, mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu at mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote
> something like:
> 
>> ofwboot.xcf doesn't seem to be in the 1.4.2 distribution.  Isn't that what
>> boots older power macs?
> 
> Yes it is, I don't see one either. Try the one here
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/snapshot/20000205/binary/kernel/
> ofboot.xcf
> 
> and see if it works.

This didn't work for me.  Happily, I was able to snarf ./usr/mdec/ofwboot
out of the same snapshot's base.tgz set, which worked fine on my 7500 (w/CPU
card from a 7600).

--scott