On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Donald Lee wrote:

> OK.  I'm still a bit in the dark about the details of how the boot process
> works, but I tried the same file with the same procedure on my B&W G3 and
> it came right up.
> 
> 	boot hd:5,\netbsd
> 
> gave me the mem-filesystem and the "sysinst" stuff, just like I get
> when I boot the floppy.
> 
> Does OF 3.0 know about ELF, and OF 2.4 only XCOFF?

Exactly. If you look in the packages section, you'll see something about
elf-loader and xcoff-loader on the Blue G3. Only the xcoff one is there on
the Beige (I have a Blue one at work, and a Beige at home).

> The OF 2.4 is clearly broken in at least some ways.  For instance, it has
> devalias entries for ide, ata-int, and ide1, but when I try to use them,
> it complains.  Other devalias's work, like "fd".

Doh!

> What I'd *like* is to be able to boot using the ROM that is supposed to
> be in the machine.
> 
> I'm still planning on digging in and fixing ofwboot to work on this machine
> if I get a free weekend or two...

What problems is it giving you?

The one I know of is that if we boot off of the internal IDE, we have
problems accessing the ide. It's something which happens due to the close
routine in ofwboot. Well, OF does somethign in the ide close which we
don't undo. I'm working on getting docs on this.

Take care,

Bill