On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Allen Briggs wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 03:15:43PM -0400, Matthieu Lalonde wrote:
> > 0> boot fd:,\OFWBOOT.XCF
>
> What does the 6500 report for its Open Firmware version?  The
> 6400/200 reports "2.0".
>
> I'm having trouble finding a functional floppy disk, as I said.
> I might have to go out and buy one or something...  I'm booting
> a revision built by Luke Mewburn, not the standard 1.6, so the text
> won't match yours, but this is what I see:
>
> 0 > boot fd:,\OFWBOOT.XCF bad partition number, using 0-
> OF_open bootpath=fd
> read stage 2 blocks: 01234567. done!
> starting stage 2...
>
> >> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.6
> >> (lukem@daedalus, Tue Oct  1 11:32:50 EST 2002)
> 3722588READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@READ TIMEOUT@read text: Input/output error
> bad partition number, using 0read header
> bad partition number, using 0read header
> Boot:
>
> with
> 0 > boot fd:0
>
> I don't get that first message about a bad partition number.

There is supposed to be a number after the colon. ":," is not a valid
partition number. :-|

> I think the READ TIMEOUT messages are due to floppy sector errors.

Take care,

Bill