Subject: Booting NetBSD off a CD (using OFW)
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: sanjayl <sanjayl@iqmail.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/08/2000 19:15:26
This relates to NetBSD-1.4.1 on a G4-400 MHz machine.
Until now due to the pciide0 timeout issue, I have
been booting off the network.  I recently managed to
burn my own custom CD-ROM containing:

My kernel (netbsd)
ofwboot.elf
ofwboot.xcf
ofwboot.mrg

However, I cant get the thing to boot from open firmware.
I have tried the following values for boot-device to no
avail:

setenv boot-device ide0/disk@0:ofwboot.xcf
setenv boot-device ide0/disk@0:0,ofwboot.xcf
setenb boot-device ide0/disk@0:/ofwboot.xcf

Any hints/help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards and thanks
Sanjay
sanjayl@interquest.net