At 5:43 PM -0800 12/11/02, Ben Jansen wrote:
>On Wednesday, Dec 11, 2002, at 17:09 US/Pacific, Christopher Tribo wrote:
>
>>>Which OF patch? The only one I see mentioned is one for OF 1.05.
>>
>>	It should be  installed to OpenFirmware from within MacOS when you
>>click Power User, then save.
>
>Then it's probably installed. I did modify auto-boot and display and 
>save using System Disk.
>
>>>Hmmm, I tried a variation on this, like so:
>>>
>>>setenv boot-device ide0/disk@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF;1
>>>setenv boot-file NETBSD.MACPPC;1
>>>reset-all
>>>0 bootr
>>
>>	You might have better luck using ide0/disk@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF;1 and
>>leaving boot-file blank or using ide0/@0:0 and use boot-file OFWBOOT.XCF;1
>
>Thanks for the advice. I tried both methods. The first yields the 
>same error messages as "boot ide/disk@0:0,OFBOOT.XCF;1 
>NETBSD.MACPPC;1". The second yields "loader: unrecognized client 
>program format state not valid".

You could try setting boot-file to "-a" and then type 
"NETBSD.MACPPC;1" (or whatever) at the prompt (if you ever get a 
prompt).

Have fun with your finals.  That *is* more important.
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