Subject: Re: Booting
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Michael Wolfson <mw@blobulent.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/11/2001 22:41:07
At 5:00 PM -0500 12/7/01, Todd Vierling wrote:

:)That's correct.  You shouldn't give OFWBOOT.XCF to the boot command for OFW
:)1 or 2 using the special .iso's on ftp.netbsd.org.  Boot the CD as if it
:)were a bootable floppy.  (I haven't checked to see how the release notes
:)describe the CD booting process in 1.5.2; mw revised it many times.  8-)

Incorrectly.  I was assuming that you loaded OFWBOOT.XCF from an ISO
partition.  The 1.5.1 ISO image doesn't barf if you run:
boot scsi-int/sd@3:0,\OFWBOOT.XCF NETBSD.MACPPC

on an OF 1.0.5 system (in particular my 7300).  I'll update it.

  -- MW