You missed my point (or maybe I didn't make it clear).

I want "reboot" from NetBSD to use the same boot parameters that booted
it.  So if I did "boot disk2:f" to boot NetBSD, I want reboot to use that
regardless of what's in the prom.  I DO NOT want "reboot" from netbsd to
cause the box to boot whatever happens to be the default on that system.

I _want_ "boot" to behave differently to "boot disk1:e" but if disk1:e
happens to boot netbsd, I want "reboot" from netbsd to know it has to
cause the prom to do a "boot disk1:e".  And I want it to not change the
default boot device or file.

Does that make it more clear about what I'm after ?

In some email I received from Brian A. Seklecki, sie wrote:
> 
> from the eeprom, try:
> 
> printenv boot-device
> printenv boot-file
> 
> -lava
> 
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> >
> > Is it possible to look in the eeprom/ofw to find out the path we booted
> > from and pass that back with reboot ?
> >
> > I'm currently doing "boot disk3:g" to boot netbsd/sparc but unless I do
> > a "reboot -- disk3:g" from netbsd, it won't boot back into netbsd on a
> > reboot/crash.
> >
> > Darren
> >
> >
> 
> --Brian
> 
>  ----
> 
> "GNU/Linux: About as stable as the elements at the bottom of the periodic
> table"
> 
> 
> 
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