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

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

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

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-macppc/54537: NetBSD/macppc 9.0 Beta CD does not boot
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2019 14:47:09 -0400

 Hello,
 
 As Martin mentioned, this is a known limitation of the pre-release ISO
 installer images. I've just added references to this where the OFW
 error message is discussed in our documentation. It probably needs to
 also appear somewhere more prominent (suggestions are welcome).
 
 To boot 9-BETA, you'd need to have the boot loader located somewhere
 other than an installer CD-ROM, e.g. on the primary bootable HFS
 partition on the machine. Then you could do something like this:
 
 boot hd:,\ofwboot.xcf cd:,\netbsd.macppc
 
 (I can assure you that this issue aside, 9-BETA and HEAD do work, as
 I've been testing them for months on more than one machine.)
 
 Thanks for helping to test NetBSD/macppc!
 
 Regards,
 
 Dave