> >   Same here. I have just given up with auto-boot? true for now.
> > I got it to the point where typing "boot" at the OF prompt does
> > boot fine, but trying to enable auto booting will just give me
> > a white screen, and NetBSD doesn't seem to boot either.

I've found that my 8500 doesn't do a cold boot with auto-boot? true
because the disk isn't finished spinning up when OF tries to boot.  I
don't know if that particular cause was covered earlier in the thread
or not...  If so, I apologize for the noise.

-allen

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