A follow-up to my own message:

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:58:05PM -0500, John Valdes wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:30:25AM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > 
> > If someone's going to go and change the documentation on this one,
> > could we word it maybe more like this (no personal insult to Makoto
> > Fujiwara intended; I'm a native English speaker and I'm presuming he
> > is not):
> > 
> >   The boot loader (ofwboot.elf or ofwboot.xcf) is capable of reading
> >   the kernel from either a 4.2BSD or HFS/HFS+ partition,
> 
> Is this accurate?  I was under the impression at the ofwboot.* boot
> loader could only read *BSD and ISO-9660 filesystems (plus tftp), and
> NOT HFS/HFS+. [...]  Perhaps newer ofwboot (newer
> than 1.2) can read HFS/HFS+?

I just tested this, and newer ofwboot *can* read from HFS & HFS+.  I
tested w/ the version of ofwboot included in the latest snapshot.  It
still claims (when booted) to be version 1.2, although from May 2001.
The ofwboot from the NetBSD 1.5 release on the otherhand can't read
from HFS or HFS+.

John