On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:31:53PM -0800, Stephen Young wrote:

> I also got openboot working correctly, fixed the aliases.  Cdrom was 
> pointing to some weird device (which should have been a clue that 
> something was wrong there, I never heard the cdrom reading the cd when 
> I did boot cdrom).
> 
> I am made progress, but ran into a little snag :)
> 
> I first tried using a couple of isos I downloaded.  First was the 2.0 
> release, then the 1.6 release, and the workstation never booted those.  
> It told me the file loaded doesn't appear to be executable.

Make sure the new devalias for the cdrom points to the correct... uh...
partition.  You need a `:f' at the end of the path otherwise it may try
to load something for the wrong architecture.

Also the `d', `D', `v', and `V' flags during boot may give you some 
useful information.

Eduardo