on 2/26/01 3:55 PM, Henry B. Hotz at hotz@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:

> 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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> h.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu
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My Actual experience with trying the above and something Todd wrote:

0> boot cd:,ofwboot.xcf <return>  (then) /load-size=d4c4 adler32=1956c83a

loading XCOFF

tsize=bf00 dsize=14e4 bsize=1608 entry=600000

.text  00600000 00600000 0000bf00 000000e0
.data  0060c000 0060c000 000014e4 0000bfe0
.bss   0060d4e8 0060d4e8 00001608 00000000
loading .text, done..
loading .data, done..
>>NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.2
>> (mat@duel.local, Thu Nov 16 17:26:57 PST 2000)
open: no such file or directory
open /pci@f2000000/mac-io17/ata-4@1f000/disk@1:0/netbsd: no such file or
directory

Boot:


Dave Low
Still trying to get NetBSD loaded on my Mac Cube to dual boot

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