John,

I am having the exact same problem, I have tried to burn two CDs thus far,
one was an ISO9660 file system, which really didn't work at all, the other
was a Mac native filesystem, which gave me the same Unrecognized client
format.  I posted a message on Sunday, and expected someone to reply
quickly as a lot of people here seem to have gotten the kernel loaded and
are actually using it.  Unfortunately I got no reponse.  I'm in the same
exact situation, with only Toast to burn the CDs.

Toast does have an option to make a Hybrid Mac/ISO CD-ROM.  It wants a mac
volume as input however, and I'm not sure what to give it for that.

Without a floppy in this system, I'm not sure what to do now...

mohan

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, John Klos wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> After partially successfully making an ISO CD, I can now boot to the same
> point as Laurent de Segur:
> 
> md0: internal 1600K image area
> boot device: <unknown>
> root on md0a dumps on md0b
> 
> The answer from Bill was:
> > I think the problem is that the system has decided to use a memory file
> > system (ram disk) for the root devvice in a kernel which doesn't have
> > one. :-(
> 
> Now... If I use the kernel in
> ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4.2/macppc/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC_MD.gz,
> how do I specify a root disk? And what root disk do I specify? I can't
> seem to find any ramdisk images.
> 
> I shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel. Why not make the files in boot.fs
> available to those of us without a floppy?
> 
> Also, does anyone know what ISO options to use (in Toast) when creating
> the cd? The most recent CD I made gives me:
> 0> boot cd:,ofwboot.elf load-size=800 adler32=25f1d5dd
> Unrecognized Client Format
> 
> But when I use ofwboot.elf from the 1.5 cd made from the ISO image from
> ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/arch/macppc/isofs.20000620-1.5, I get the
> netbsd not found error, then I put in the ISO cd I made by downloading
> ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4.2/macppc/binary/ stuff, I
> boot the kernel, then I get the error above.
> 
> Any clue?
> 
> BTW - my NetBSD Amiga is colocated, so even if I had a CD burner in it,
> I'd have to travel for a few hours to be able to use mkhybrid. So Im'm
> stuck with Toast.
> 
> Thanks,
> John Klos
> 
> 
>