On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Luke Mewburn wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 03:48:00PM -0400, Allen Briggs wrote:
>   | I'm booting a [boot floppy] revision built by Luke Mewburn,
>   | not the standard 1.6, so the text won't match yours [...]
>
> For what it's worth, the files that Allen refers to are a custom
> rebuild of 1.6 for macppc containing the following changes:
>     +	INSTALL kernel has uninorth* bridge added, so that newer
> 	systems can use it
>     +	ofwboot has fixes for cache flushing and memory allocation,
> 	to improve its success on more systems.
>
> Test images are up at:
> 	ftp://ftp.au.netbsd.org/pub/lukem/
>
> Note; due to a variety of circumstances, the bootable CD might not
> work on systems prior to OF 3.0.  The boot floppy *should* work, at
> least on more systems than the standard 1.6 macppc boot floppy.

As others have seen, I ran into the "boot device at command line doesn't
work for CD" problem. "boot ide1/@0:5" wouldn't work (Can't OPEN was the
error), but "setenv bootdev ide1/@0:5; reset-all" followed by "boot"
worked.

Take care,

Bill