Hi

Thanks to everyone who responded (it is indeed an MS-DOS floppy I was using 
as was inferred in the original post).

Unfortunately, whilst setting up the env variables again after a 'PRAM zap' 
I mis-counted zeroes and cunningly set the real-base env variable to 
F000000 instead of F00000 (ooops).  The lovely machine is apparently now a 
lovelier doorstop.  So I am unable to test the command kindly posted by 
Henry - well not until after a trip back to Apple I think - unless someone 
knows a way round this...

thanks again,
jon

At 11:13 14/11/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>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
>--
>The opinions expressed in this message are mine,
>not those of Caltech, JPL, NASA, or the US Government.
>Henry.B.Hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu