On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Joe Laffey wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, David Brownlee wrote:
>
> >
> > 	Trying a -current floppy gives (typing 'boot fd:0' twice)
> >
> > 	    0 > boot fd:0 READ TIMEOUT can't OPEN:  fd:0
> > 	      ok
> > 	    0 > boot fd:0 -
> > 	    read stage 2 blocks: 0123456. done!
> > 	    starting stage 2...
> >
> > 	    >> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.7
> > 	    >> (autobuild@tgm.daemon.org, Thu Apr 17 06:43:09 UTC 2003)
> > 	    READ TIMEOUTREAD TIMEOUTDEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00400 at [...]
> > 	      ok
> > 	    0 >
>
> I had to take the ofwboot.xcf from the 1.5.3 distribution and copy it onto
> a floppy along with the netbsd.gz from the 1.6 distribution. The
> ofwboot.xcf that came with the 1.6 distribution caused this same error for
> me.
>
> We had a thread about this when I first had the problem, and I was under
> the impression that the new ofwboot.xcf had some issues...

The 1.7 version is supposed to be fixed. Please test it.

If no one tests it, we'll have another release w/ broken bootloaders. :-|

Take care,

Bill