On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 4:38 PM -0700 9/20/99, Bob Nestor wrote:
> >
> >
> >I've been putting the ofwboot.elf file on the macppc CDs I've been
> >creating.  I'd like to also include the ofwboot.xco file to make sure I
> >cover all the bases.  Can someone tell me where I can find it?

I'll see if I can dig a copy up. The one I know works is at home..

> >This request has become real important to me just this evening since I
> >have an order from Henry for a copy of the CD, and he's asked for the
> >ofwboot.xco file.  ;-)
> 
> I got one from Bill S. ;-)  I also have the copy I put on a CDR somewhere.
> Can't find either at the moment.
> 
> I think the canonical way to find the latest one is to take the latest boot
> floppy image, mount it as a vnode under *BSD, and copy if out.  Or is that
> just where one gets the netbsd/w/miniroot kernel that goes with
> ofwboot.xcoff?  This is one case where RTFM worked for me.  I can manage
> without it since I can boot from floppy, so don't let it hold up the order.

Oops... That won't quite work.

> OK, I just found where I disassembled a boot floppy, but it's on a work
> machine and I haven't finished researching where all the bureaucratic lines
> are for what I want these CD-ROM's for.  I'd better not supply it myself
> then, though I did put it in my standard public archive on my JPL-supported
> netbsd machine for anyone else who can make use of it.
> 
> Bill:  is the file called boot on the bootfloppy image actually ofwboot.xcoff?

No. It's more accuratly called, "ofwboot.image_file". Executable files
normally have multiple sections (code, read-only text, writable text,
zero-initialized data, etc). This file is just one section, so that the
loaders can just load it into memory and then jump to an address.

I'll see what I can do.

Take care,

Bill