Subject: Re: Booting from CD on Performa 6400
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@wasabisystems.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/02/2002 10:25:50
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Allen Briggs wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:43:21PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > Some old OF is really buggy and it does not set bootpath properly.
> > So ofwboot/boot.c uses boot-device instead if bootpath is invalid.
>
> Yes, but it seems that we could handle some of these bugs more
> effectively.  In this (common) case, a bootpath of /AAPL,ROM is
> certainly wrong.

Well, the problem I see is what do we do if the only bit of info we get is
obviously wrong? We only look at boot-device if we werereturned a null
string for bootpath.

Take care,

Bill