On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Michael Wolfson wrote:

: Open Firmware 1.x and 2.0.x systems can only boot from pure ISO volumes.

I have a very hard time believing this because of how such a hybrid disk is
made with mkhybrid, and I have a feeling that it may be a problem with the
Toast-prepared CDs previously mentioned here.

Would someone with a OFW 1 or 2 machine please burn the following image and
attempt to boot it?  It is a hybrid HFS/ISO prepared with mkhybrid, with
"ofwboot.xcf", "ofwboot.elf", and "netbsd" (from netbsd.ram.gz of 1.5_BETA)
listed in both filesystems.  To save other people a blank CD, please post
the boot result to the list.

    (ISO-9660 and HFS)
    ftp://ftp.duh.org/pub/NetBSD/macppcboot-hfsiso.iso.gz

If this fails, also prepared are the following, if you have spare CD blanks
to burn, or a CD-RW capable reader.  This should provide a flexible set of
test boot images to help find the real root of the problem.

    (ISO-9660 *WITHOUT* ;1 revision numbers on the filenames, and HFS)
    ftp://ftp.duh.org/pub/NetBSD/macppcboot-hfsiso-norev.iso.gz

    (ISO-9660 and Apple ISO-9660 Extensions, no HFS)
    ftp://ftp.duh.org/pub/NetBSD/macppcboot-aexiso.iso.gz

    (ISO-9660, HFS, Rock Ridge, Joliet hybrid)
    ftp://ftp.duh.org/pub/NetBSD/macppcboot-hfshybrid.iso.gz

    (ISO-9660, Apple ISO-9660 Extensions, Rock Ridge, Joliet hybrid)
    ftp://ftp.duh.org/pub/NetBSD/macppcboot-aexhybrid.iso.gz

    (ISO-9660 only)
    ftp://ftp.duh.org/pub/NetBSD/macppcboot-iso.iso.gz

The outcome of the ISO/HFS test is is very important, as it may alter the
way the multi-architecture 1.5 CD distribution is laid out.

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