At 4:35 PM -1000 2/25/01, Dave Low wrote:
>on 2/19/01 10:26 AM, Todd Vierling at tv@wasabisystems.com wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> >
> > : :)For OFW3, you're supposed to use ofwboot.elf, not ofwboot.xcf...I don't
> > know
> > : :)if the xcoff version will work or not, but the elf version 
>definitely will
> > : :)boot.
> > :
> > : Actually, the xcoff version works on all machines -- the 
>preference for the
> > : elf bootloader is that it's easier to compile, and thus there are more
> > : versions of it floating around.
> >
> > Yes.  In fact, the CDs pressed by Wasabi and The NetBSD Mission have only
> > the XCOFF version, for uniformity.
>
>When I get to the  Firmware boot prompt:
>
> >boot cd:ofwboot.elf (of course ofwboot.elf is not in the root of the CD)
>   gets me the quickly passing "booting elf" followed immediately by
>  "do-quiessing" or something like that. An immediate reboot to macos
>  follows that.
>
>so then I copy ofwboot.elf and a few of the other files in the macppc folder
>into the System Folder of  the  MacOS. I then reboot into open firmware
> >boot ofwboot.elf and I get the same thing.

The ofwboot.xcf version *is* in the root of the CD, isn't it?

You would need to copy to the root of the MacOS partition, not the 
system folder unless you wee giving a full path to the boot command.


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