appologies for noise, wrong reply!

	-cn-

-----Original Message-----
From: Cliff Neighbors [mailto:cliff@allegronetworks.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 2:38 PM
To: 'Todd Vierling'; Henry B. Hotz
Cc: Bill Studenmund; mw@blobulent.com; S Lafredo; port-macppc@netbsd.org
Subject: RE: Booting


I have tahoe04 reserved until 4:00; if we meet earlier I'll lose
some time... so I prefer to meet at or after 4:00,
but if earlier is the only other option the OK.

	-cn-

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Vierling [mailto:tv@wasabisystems.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 2:01 PM
To: Henry B. Hotz
Cc: Bill Studenmund; mw@blobulent.com; S Lafredo; port-macppc@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Booting


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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