Jon,

    I am not sure that the OF in the 8500 pays any attention to
boot-file. Try explicitly naming the kernel to boot in the boot command.
I don't recall the syntax.

                    kevin

Jon Buller wrote:

> I've got an 8500 running the NetBSD 1.5ZA snapshot.  I've previously
> done all this sort of thing with NetBSD/pc532 and NetBSD/sparc,
> but ran into some unexpected problems while doing the same things
> with NetBSD/macppc.
>
> What I did was to try getting a custom kernel running on the machine.
> After I got the kernel built, I did 'mv /netbsd /onetbsd' and 'cp
> ./netbsd /netbsd'  OK, actually I put them in /stand, and made hard
> links to them.  When I rebooted, I ended up looking at a ddb prompt,
> so I figured I built a bogus kernel, set the boot-file variable to
> onetbsd and rebooted the machine.  This put me in ddb the same way
> the new kernel did.  To back out of this, I hadd to boot my install
> floppy, mount the root filesystem, move onetbsd back to netbsd,
> reset the boot-file and reboot.  Then it started working fine again.
>
> How do I get a new kernel in?  That procedure works fine on sparcs
> and pc532s.  Does the macppc boot loader need something more than
> the file name of the kernel on the boot partition?  What did I do
> wrong?
>
> Jon