At 10:38 PM -0800 11/13/02, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Charlie Allom wrote:
>
>>  On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:23:28PM +0000, Jon Whitlock wrote:
>>  > Hi
>>  >
>>  >
>  > > 0 > boot fd:,\OFWBOOT.XCF NETBSD.GZ loading XCOFF
>>  > tsize=CBC0 dsize=14A8 bsize=2670 entry=640000
>>  > SECTIONS:
>>  > .text    00640000 00640000 0000CBC0 000000E0
>>  > .data    0064D000 0064D000 000014A8 0000CCA0
>>  > .bss     0064E4A8 0064E4A8 00002670 00000000
>>  > loading .text, done..
>>  > loading .data, done..
>>  > clearing .bss, done..
>>  >
>>  > >> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.6
>>  > >> (autobuild@tgm.daemon.org, Sun Sep  8 21:53:46 UTC 2002)
>>  > no active package3720996+128848=0x3ac088
>>  >  start=0x800000
>>  >
>>  >
>>
>>  try 'boot fd:0' again
>>
>>  You don't need all that extra stuff on  the end IIRC.
>
>No, he needs it if I understand what he's doing. He's not booting off of a
>pre-built boot floppy, he's booting off of a file system that OF knows
>about. So fd:0 isn't going to work. :-(

He *needs* the partition number in both cases, I think.  If it's an 
MS-DOS floppy then I know he needs the :1.

Try:
boot fd:1,\OFWBOOT.XCF NETBSD.GZ
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