At 08:29 PM 10/13/2000 -0700, Cliff Neighbors wrote:
>matt,
>
>thanks for posting this, I ran into a related, possibly same,
>problem yesterday with a newer G4 (OF sez "PowerMac3,3 31f1
>BootROM built on 06/28/00" etc).

Same as mine.  I have a dual-G4 450.

>I tried your boot command line below and still no go.
>my DHCP server (netbsd-i386 1.4.2, DHCP Server v2.0b1pl25+)
>logs the following (abridged) events:
>1. recv. discover from the Mac
>2. offers an ip addr to the mac
>3. gets a request for that same ip addr from the mac
>4. get's an ack from that ip addr (from the mac)
>5. gets 5 or so "DHCPINFORM" messages
>after that nothing (visible) happens.

I'm using the 1.5F dhcpd and that might make a difference.

>I have also noticed some strange deal with auto-boot?
>behavior on these new G4s; OF settings that work in a
>G4 I bought in May don't work on the newer model:
>         setenv auto-boot? true
>         setenv boot-device cd:,ofwboot.elf
>         setenv boot-file -a
>         setenv boot-command boot
>         reset-all
>works on the older model but not on the new one..?

I don't think they can load ofwboot.elf from CD.  Mine can't.
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