>>> Any ideas on this?
>>
> 
> Hmmm.  Back to basics.  This is OF 1, right?  There are bugs in some of 
> the boot variable code which our ofwboot detects and works around. 
> Bootpath sounds related.
No:

0 > dev /openprom .properties
name                    openprom
model                   Open Firmware, 2.0
relative-addressing

> 
> Make sure that you have boot-file, and boot-device environment variables 
> are set to something rational, or else make sure the boot-command is set 
> to something which includes a boot path on the boot command line.
I was under the impression that partition 0 bootloadser don't need/have 
bootfiles?

Thanks for you help.

> 
> My best guess.
> 
>>> Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>>>
>>>> At 7:17 PM -0800 3/10/03, Jesse Peterson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I can only assume that netbsd doesn't support automatically booting 
>>>>> from this machine.  Is this true?  Somebody point me to the light!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like it has nothing to do with the disk spinup.  You need to 
>>>> find out what the "soft reset" does and duplicate it.  I wouldn't 
>>>> have a clue myself.
>>>
> 

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