"Henry B. Hotz" wrote:
> 
> OK, I've demonstrated that if you set boot-file to '-a' then ofwboot
> will ask for the file name.  What can I tell it to make it boot from
> a different disk than the one it came from?  Will it take an OF
> device path (I can't tell from the error messages)?
> 
> Maybe I should be asking where the source code for ofwboot is on the
> web so I can browse it.

Henry,

  I managed to use ofwboot to boot off of a zip disk a couple of weeks
ago.  Unfortunately, I can't remember if I loaded ofwboot off of the
zip, a CD, or my HFS hard drive, and now I can't seem to get Open
Firmware to run it off of any of them.  I'm pretty sure it was off of
the CD, though.

  I think I simply gave ofwboot the device alias for the zip disk:
something like "zip:0,netbsd".  This was after booting ofwboot with
the -a option, of course.  I may have specified the entire path of the
device, though.  I can't get back to check until I can convince open
firmware to boot it again, though. :(

  Of course, things may be different: I'm using ofwboot.elf, not
xcoff, and a much later version of OF than you have.

        J. David Blackstone