On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Michael Wolfson wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:
> 
> >      Note   Older Macintosh machines' OpenFirmware may not have support for
> >             loading an ELF executable -- the error message may say "OBJECT
> >             FILE FORMAT NOT RECOGNIZED".  In that case, you need to use an
> >             XCOFF boot loader, named "ofwboot.xcf".  Once that boot loader
> >             runs, it can boot the normal ELF kernel just fine.
> 
> I only found one instance of ofwboot.xcf on ftp.netbsd.org, dated Feb 6,
> 2000 (version 1.2).  Is there any reason this isn't in the 1.4.2_ALPHA
> set?

Yes, the Makefile hackery needed to make an xcoff file hasn't been pulled
into the 1.4 branch.

> In any case, it doesn't work -- My 8500 downloads the XCOFF bootloader,
> and attempts to load the kernel, but never passes the file name of the
> kernel to the host tftpd.

ofwboot doesn't boot the kernel off of tftp, it tries to nfs mount the
root filesystem and get the kernel from there.

Take care,

Bill