On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:20:39 +0100 (CET)
Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@cs.stevens.edu> wrote:

> 
> David,
> 
> I thought a bit more about bootxx_cd9660 yesterday...
> right now it seems one cannot do anything useful after interrupting
> the 5 second count-down, e.g.
> 
> 1) "ls" gives
>     > ls
>     : Not a directory
> 
> 2) Cannot boot another kernel even when knowing the name:
> 
>     > boot netbsd-NOON
>     booting cd0a:netbsd-NOON
>     open netbsd-NOON: No such file or directory
>     boot: cd0a:netbsd-NOON: No such file or directory
>     >
> 
> I think having this available would be the very least to make a
> bootable CD that has several kernels on them, i.e. thinking of the
> many i386 INSTALL* kernels we have right now.

I have reported these two problems months ago. Our bootxx_cd9660
cannot see files with more than 8 chars, and it cannot list any file in
the iso because there is not cd9660_ls() implemented.