Re: port-macppc/54537: NetBSD/macppc 9.0 Beta CD does not boot

[emily@ingalls.rocks]

The following reply was made to PR port-macppc/54537; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: emily@ingalls.rocks
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: port-macppc-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-macppc/54537: NetBSD/macppc 9.0 Beta CD does not boot
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:18:50 -0700

 On 2019-09-08 23:55, Martin Husemann wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR port-macppc/54537; it has been
 > noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: port-macppc/54537: NetBSD/macppc 9.0 Beta CD does not boot
 > Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 08:53:50 +0200
 > 
 >  On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 06:45:00AM +0000, emily@ingalls.rocks wrote:
 >  > >How-To-Repeat:
 >  > Attempt to boot the NetBSD 9.0 Beta for macppc from CD on any 
 > PowerMac.
 > 
 >  How are you booting it?
 > 
 >  The "automatic boot" requires a hybrid ISO9660/HFS CD and we only do 
 > that
 >  for releases or release candidates (as it currently requires manual 
 > build
 >  steps).
 > 
 >  macppc folks:
 >  someone please document this more prominently in the release notes 
 > (conditional
 >  on official release?, contact me off list if you need help for this) 
 > or
 >  the ports wiki page plase.
 > 
 >  Martin
 
 I am booting by going to the open firmware prompt and entering this 
 command:
 
 boot cd:,\ofwboot.xcf
 
 This boots NetBSD 8.1 fine. This does not boot NetBSD 9.0 beta image 
 that I have, including when passing it the location of the kernel image.
 
 In all cases I can test I get the error I listed previously:
 
 unrecognized Client Program format
 
 my understanding is that this error is given by Open Firmware when it 
 does not recognize the format of the file you have told it to load, in 
 this case I would presume that means ofwboot.xcf, as a valid xcoff image 
 or chrp boot script.