In article <v03130300b8cd3bb87ec9@[10.0.1.2]>
michael@nosflow.com wrote:

> I believe the problem with ofwboo.xcf and MSDOS floppies had to do with the
> load-base.  Current versions of ofwboot.xcf have corrected this (see the
> entry in the FAQ).

Hmm, I've just tried to boot a kernel from DOS floppy again,
it *sometimes* can load ofwboot.xcf..

Anyway, ofwboot with dosfs support seems to load a kernel
from DOS floppy, but loaded kernel hangs after consinit().
(dosfs support in libsa has some problem on macppc?)
---
Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp


Open Firmware, 2.0
To continue booting the MacOS type:
BYE<return>
To continue booting from the default boot device type:
BOOT<return>
 ok
0 > boot fd:,ofwboot.xcf loading XCOFF
tsize=E730 dsize=14C8 bsize=2688 entry=640000 
SECTIONS:
.text    00640000 00640000 0000E730 000000E0
.data    0064F000 0064F000 000014C8 0000E810
.bss     006504C8 006504C8 00002688 00000000
loading .text, done..
loading .data, done..
clearing .bss, done..

>> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.6
>> (tsutsui@lancer, Tue Apr  2 00:08:13 JST 2002)
2699832+193336 [156064+129179]=0x308210
 start=0x100000
[ using 285856 bytes of netbsd ELF symbol table ]