On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Michael Wolfson wrote:

> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:37:21 -0500
> From: Michael Wolfson <mw@costello.cnf.cornell.edu>
> Reply-To: mw@blobulent.com
> To: mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu
> Cc: port-macppc@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: problem booting 7500
> 
> At 11:24 AM -0500 10/31/00, mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> 
> :)I managed to boot the 1.4.2 floppy once on the machine and am now trying
> :)to boot from a 1.5_BETA cd.  I placed 'ofwboot.xcf' and a kernel in the /
> :)directory of the CD.  The CD does not have a HFS partition.  The CD-ROM
> :)drive is on the external scsi bus.
> [...]
> :)0 > boot scsi/sd@4:0,ofwboot.xcf unrecognized Client Program formatstate
> :)not valid
> :) ok


> Odd.  You're the second person I've heard from with this problem.  What
> command are you using to make your CD-R image?  Try
> http://www.blobulent.com/~mw/netbsd-macppc.iso

mkhybrid -v -v -o images/out.iso -b boot-padded.fs -c boot.catalog -J -r
   -a -l -L  NetBSD-1.5_BETA

then 

cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=/dev/cd0c out.iso

its a full CD (i386,mac68k,macppc,sparc,pmax,vax,pkgsrc,syssrc).


> I created this with Toast for MacOS.  It's 1.4 MB in size, and has two
> files: NETBSD.GZ and OFWBOOT.XCF
> The kernel is the one extracted from the 1.5_ALPHA2 boot floppy.

ok, I'll try this tonight.  thanks

-Dan