Thank you all for your help.

I have some good suggestions now to try, but will be out of town
this week for a class (Don't you hate this "working for a living"
stuff? ;-> )

It'll have to wait until I get back on the 30th.

Cheers,

-dgl-

>On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Michael Wolfson wrote:
>
>> At 6:36 AM -0300 7/21/01, caportel wrote:
>> [snip]
>> That is documented in the INSTALL notes.  It looks like I never put that
>> into the FAQ.  Perhaps it needs to be clearer.  Basically, OF 1.0.5 clears
>> all settings when you boot into MacOS < X.  OF 2.0.x and 2.4 clear only
>> real-base when you boot into MacOS < X.  Booting OF 3 into MacOS does not
>> modify any of the OF settings.
><snip> 
>> :)>> setenv boot-device ide1/disk@0:0,ofwboot.xcf
>> :)>> setenv boot-file netbsd.macppc
>> :)>> reset-all
>> :)>
>> :)> Is the boot-file environment needed? I never needed it for
>> :)> anything.
>> :)
>> :)In this case with the patches, yes.
>> 
>> So, if I understand y'all right, if you have applied the System Disk
>> patches, you *always* must enter a boot-file.  Under what conditions is
>> this necessary?  That is, which of the following:  booting from a floppy,
>> booting from an ISO CD, booting from a file on an HFS partition, booting
>> from 'partition zero', booting from the network.
>
>	No, from my tangle with OFW last night: If you wish to boot/boot a
>kernel from IDE/SCSI (and possibly Enet), you must have boot-device set to
>ide1/@X or scsi/@X as well as having load-base something other than the
>ballpark of 600000 (6c0000 and 4000 worked for me with OFWBOOT). Then
>after you reset-all, I could load OFWBOOT from an ISO9660 CD. I tried many
>different partition numbers and it didn't seem to make any difference with
>an MSDOS floppy and the ISO9660 CD.
> [snip for brevity]