At 6:32 PM -0500 7/14/00, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> > It sounds like you could do 'boot hd:,ofwboot.elf -a' followed by the
> > name of your kernel at the prompt.  Better yet you may be able to
> > skip ofwboot and just do 'boot hd:,netbsd' (or whatever your kernel
> > name is).
>
>Newer version of OF can directly load kernels?  Cool.

Yes, but I'm sure it can't load gzipped ones.  You still need 
ofwboot.xxx for that.

>When I typed:
>
>boot hd:,ofwboot.elf -a
>
>And when it asked me what file to boot ("Boot:"), I typed in netbsd.ram.gz
>and it gave me an error (something like "no such file or directory").

Is the file at the top of the directory tree?  You may need to give 
the whole pathname otherwise and OF may have bugs following a path on 
the CD.


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