On Wednesday, Dec 11, 2002, at 17:13 US/Pacific, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

>> I had a SCSI Zip and SCSI CD-R; I disconnected both to no avail. The 
>> only other addition is the Rage 128 card I am using.
>
> I don't *think* the Rage card is the issue.  What I can recall were 
> disk issues, but I've been paying more attention to OF1 and OF3 
> machines since that's what I have.
>
> Did you install the SystemDisk patches?

If all I had to do was hit Save, yes, I did.

>   Did you try removing the SystemDisk patches?  (setenv use_nvramrc? 
> false should be good enough for removal.  Check my spelling of the 
> variable.)

I'm not sure which variable it is.. Is there any way to make printenv 
act like ls, as in a pager type thing? When I ls and the output is 
longer than one screen, it says "More [<space>, <cr>, q] ?"

> If you're feeling experimental, here's something to try:  format an 
> MS-DOS floppy and put the ofwboot and netbsd files on it (with 8.2 
> filenames).  Then try "dir fd:1,\".  It's well known that the floppy 
> doesn't work under OF, but maybe if it's an MS-DOS floppy instead of a 
> netbsd one. . .

I'll try that.

Actually, I just tried using a snapshot, 9-30-2002, on CD. I put 
ofwboot.xcf and netbsd.GENERAL_MD.gz (name?) as netbsd.macppc on the 
root. I burned it as hybrid:

0 > dir ide0/disk@0
.
..
DESKTOP_.DB
DESKTOP_.DF
NETBSD.MAC
OFWBOOT.XCF

Unfortunately, it CLAIM fails at the same place as the 1.6 release did. 
:-/