At 2:50 PM -0500 11/18/01, Rob Latham wrote:

:)dir cd:0,\ doesn't work, though it sounds like it's trying.  I get
:)"method <dir> not found; ihandle=ffbc5f00 phandle=ff8d4e68 DIR method
:)failed" , though i can "dir hd:9,\" and get a listing.  "dir cd:1,\" and
:)"dir cd:2,\"  hang OF
:)
:)so i can't get a listing... not the end of the world, right? :>

It is indeed.  Open Firmware uses the same 'dir' routines to list the files
in a directory as it does to actually load a particular file.  If 'dir'
isn't finding ofwboot.xcf, then 'boot' isn't.

:)"boot cd:0,ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc" tells me "DISK-LABEL: LOAD
:)(noninterposed) not supportedload-size=0 adler32=1" and "LOAD-SIZE is
:)too small"

Sounds suspiciously like
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#formatstate-not-valid

Perhaps Apple has changed something so that the error message is different.

BTW, is this a new PBG4 or an old one (i.e. PowerBook G4 (Titanium) or
PowerBook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet))?  AFAIK, no one has tried the new model
yet.

  -- MW