On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

: >The magic put in for older OFW versions is a real partition-0 bootblock and
: >bootxx loader pointing to a non-XCOFF ofwboot.  This is the same boot method
: >used by the boot floppy (and thus these CDs boot similarly to the boot
: >floppy).
:
: Hmmm.  So if I left the filename off the boot command maybe it would
: work?  I'll give it a try.  I got used to booting vanilla 9660 CD's
: so that stripps my mental gears.

That's correct.  You shouldn't give OFWBOOT.XCF to the boot command for OFW
1 or 2 using the special .iso's on ftp.netbsd.org.  Boot the CD as if it
were a bootable floppy.  (I haven't checked to see how the release notes
describe the CD booting process in 1.5.2; mw revised it many times.  8-)

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