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On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 06:38:55PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:02:29PM +0100, Riccardo wrote:
> > Since the iMac is fairly new though, you require quite little
> > OpenFirmware interaction. Read the documents and follow what  "version
> > 3" of OF suggests;
>=20
> I'm about to have another go with a power macintosh 5500/225 which has
> of 2.0.3 - in the bootable cd rom howto, it mentions:
>=20
>    <BOOT-SCRIPT>
>    boot cd:,ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc
>    </BOOT-SCRIPT>
>=20
> ...
>=20
>           ... Open Firmware treats the boot file name as
>           case sensitive. Most (if not all) Open Firmware 1.0.5, 1.1.22,
>           and 2.0.x systems will think the bootloader is OFWBOOT.XCF ...
>=20
> So should the boot script read
>=20
>    boot cd:,OFWBOOT.XCF netbsd.macppc
>=20
> in that case? (Just to save time...)

Yes & No. The versions of OF that want all-caps listed above don't look at=
=20
the boot script. AFAIK boot script support came in with version OF version=
=20
3. So I don't think we _have_ to, though we may want to just to be=20
consistent.

Take care,

Bill

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