On Mar 17, 2005, at 10:40 AM, Bill Squier wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:46:16AM -0500, Dan LaBell wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 15, 2005, at 8:50 PM, Bill Squier wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:54:18PM +0000, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
>>>>  If by "hangs" you mean "sits there with a gray screen", then
>>>> this is probably the same thing that happens on some G4s. There
>>>> was a posting to this here mailing list some months ago, with
>>>> a patch to initialize the video card on boot, along the lines
>>>> of the delay-patch you tried.
>>>
>>> This is indeed the problem.  Everything is working.  Thanks for the
>>> pointer.
>>>
>>
>> What was your solution -- what worked?  Could you work all into the
>> boot-command?
>> Or did you need a separate file?  If so, it invalidates a rather long
>> winded explanation of mine... (That isn't necessary a bad thing )
>>
>>> set boot-command hd:,\OFWBOOT.XCF;1
>
> I know very little OF, but this is what I did:
Seems, at times, I know just enough to confuse myself.
>
> setenv boot-device hd:,\OFWBOOT.XCF;1
> setenv boot-file netbsd
> setenv boot-command " screen" output boot
> reset-all
>
<...>
Ya, I was definitely off-base, deluded from conclusions based on 
repeated collected unnoticed typos, I guess.  I was convinced I needed 
to use a secondary -- well, tertiary,  file, to add additional 
commands, but I don't.  Then, I thought that boot-command wasn't simply 
interpreted as if typed at keyboard, based on the fact the guide was 
using ['] instead of just tick, but it is -- at the the ok prompt one 
can type: boot-command eval
and it will go-ahead and execute it.

Anyway:
   setenv boot-command " screen" output boot
works, also:
   setenv boot-command  " screen" output boot hd:,\ofwboot.xcf 
hd:9,/netbsd
works, ( leaving boot-device and boot-file as is for mac-boot ).
Thanks for responding, you helped clear some things up.