On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Patrick Welche wrote:

> Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to boot from it. I made an image with
> and without the -l option to mkisofs, as the install notes mention
>
>        Open Firmware 1.0.5 and 2.0.x machines will not boot from
>        the ISO 9660 file system if you create a hybrid HFS/ISO
>        format CD-R. Make sure that it the CD only has ISO 9660 data
>        and does not have an Apple Partition Map.
>
> and the Power Macintosh 5500/225 has Open Firmware 2.0.3. AFAICT
>
>   mkisofs -o output.iso -b i386/installation/floppy/boot-big.fs \
>            -c boot.catalog -l -J -r -L /cdsources
>
> as per http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html won't know about an
> Apple partition map so should be fine? (By the way that page mentions
> ofwboot.elf, and I saw somewhere else that ofwboot.elf is obsolete as
> ofwboot.xcf deals with everything ?)

ofwboot.xcf is all you need. I assume you got the cd to work from your
other notes.

> devalias scsi = /bandit/ohare/mesh
> dev scsi ls
> /sd@0,0      /st@0,0       (what is st? the hard drive is on ata AFAICT)

st is the same thing st is on NetBSD: tape. :-)

> so I would guess that
>
> boot scsi/sd@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF MACPPC/BINARY/KERNEL/NETBSD_I.GZ
>
> should do the trick? It just gives me DEFAULT CATCH!
>
> dev scsi/sd@0:0 words includes open
> boot fd:0 works
> 0 > dir scsi/sd@0,\ DIR method failed
>  ok
> STACK UNDERFLOW!

Take care,

Bill