Attempting to boot a Bondi Blue iMac from the official
1.5.2 ISO; it doesn't see the kernel...  The CD was
burned on a FreeBSD/i386 machine, which has no problems
reading it.  MacOS (8.1), however, wants to initialize
the CD.  Is this normal, or indicative of a bad CD or
flaky drive in the iMac?

	-Neil


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Apple iMac Open Firmware 3.0.f8 built on 08/06/98 at 12:04:16
Copyright 1994-1998 Apple Computer, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
 ok
0 > dir cd:,\
  60542 11/29/ 0 12: 1:47  CHANGES
 193880  7/ 6/ 1 20:19:44  CHANGES-1.5.1
   9432  9/ 9/ 1 20:37:28  CHANGES-1.5.2
 254707 11/29/ 0 12: 2: 0  CHANGES.prev
   8102  9/21/ 1  0:42:57  Desktop%20DB
      0  9/21/ 1  0:42:57  Desktop%20DF
    818  9/ 9/ 1 19:10:40  LAST_MINUTE
         1/ 1/ 4  0: 0: 0  macppc
  13050  9/ 9/ 1 19:10:41  MIRRORS
  55200  8/18/ 1 17:47:41  ofwboot.xcf
   1489  9/ 9/ 1 20:42:46  README.files ok
0 > dir cd:,\netbsd.macppc  can't OPEN the DIR device
 ok
0 > boot cd:,\ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc
	load-size=d7a0 adler32=36ee944c

loading XCOFF

tsize=c1c0 dsize=1500 bsize=1608 entry=600000
SECTIONS:
.text	...
.data	...
.bss	...
loading .text, done..
loading .data, done..
clearing .bss, done..

>> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.2
>> (matt@duel.local, Sat Aug 18 13:46:09 PDT 2001)
open netbsd.macppc: No such file or directory
open /pci/mac-io/ide@21000/disk@0/netbsd.macppc: No such
	file or directory
Boot:

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% ls -l /cdrom/
total 1909
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    60542 Nov 29  2000 CHANGES
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   193880 Jul  6  2001 CHANGES-1.5.1
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     9432 Sep  9 16:37 CHANGES-1.5.2
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   254707 Nov 29  2000 CHANGES.prev
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel      818 Sep  9 15:10 LAST_MINUTE
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    13050 Sep  9 15:10 MIRRORS
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     1489 Sep  9 16:42 README.files
dr-xr-xr-x  4 root  wheel     2048 Sep  9 10:47 macppc/
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1365828 Aug 18  2001 netbsd.macppc
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    55200 Aug 18  2001 ofwboot.xcf