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Hello,

On Sep 7, 2006, at 16:04, John Klos wrote:

> I'm clear about the elf versus xcf stuff where it concerns OF 3 and 
> higher, but with < 3, there are no examples of a usable installboot 
> anywhere.

ofwboot.elf should just go away - use ofwboot.xcf everywhere.

>  People reading the installboot man page might look at some of the 
> other examples and try to run installboot on /dev/sd0c instead of 
> sd0a, for instance, and end up with problems.

It should complain about no 2nd stage bootloader.

> What's also not clear from the man page is that the second stage 
> bootloader needs to be placed in the filesystem manually, and that the 
> path for theat file is relative to the filesystem. I'll iron that out 
> a little bit.

Please do!

> Now for the next question - does the first stage bootloader (bootxx) 
> from NetBSD 4 work on OF 1 and 2? Has anyone had any success with it?

Works fine on OF 2.0f and a 3.99.20-ish one worked fine on 1.0.5

have fun
Michael
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