On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> OK, I made a vanilla ISO CD-ROM with OFWBOOT.COF, NETBSD, and a couple of
> folders with things like the base tarball in them.  I tried booting it on
> my 7500 at work (with a 604 upgrade so relax) and it didn't work.
> 
> The OF settings were default with auto-boot off, input=kbd,
> output=/chaos/control.  The boot command typed was
> 	boot scsi-int/@3:0,OFWBOOT.COF
> and the result was "RESETing SCSI bus" followed by a CR/LF after a second
> or two.  Then nothing.  I get the same result if the file is garbag.fil
> also.
> 
> Is there something magic I don't know about OF, or does this just indicate
> it didn't work?
> 
> Probably irrelevant, but I have an Adaptec 2940UW with my normal system
> disk on it.  The original CD-ROM and disk are still on the motherboard
> SCSI.  Nothing on the external SCSI.  No other PCI boards.  CPU is a Sonnet
> 150 MHz 604 upgrade card.

I think it should work. My first guess is that I sent you the wrong
ofwboot.xcf. Try the one I just EMailed you. I've used it and ran into the
problem it insisted on using its fs knowledge to load the kernel.

Take care,

Bill