At 8:41 AM -0700 6/27/03, Michael Wolfson wrote:
>At 3:55 AM -0400 6/27/03, Erik Osheim wrote:
>
>:)After struggling for a couple of days, I managed to get an 8500/120 to
>:)boot a custom-built CD. The problem, as it turned out, was that OF was
>:)appending ";1" to all the filenames, so the command ended up looking
>:)like:
>:)
>:)scsi-int/sd@3:0,OFWBOOT.XCF;1 NETBSD.GZ;1
>
>Yes, that's been in the INSTALL notes for a while now (about the ;1).

Don't know what's in the notes, but I thought this was an issue with 
the ISO standard, not with OF.  The ISO CD-ROM standard requires 
filenames to be 8.3;1 format (8 char's, ".", 3 char's, ";", version 
number).  You can generate CD's without the appended version number, 
but then they don't meet all the ISO requirements anymore.

OF isn't smart enough to default the version number to "1" if you 
leave it off.  Otherwise it's not OF's fault.

>:)The standard install CD is a hybrid, so I could "dir" it in OF. I spent
>:)many hours cursing at the thing before building my own CD. The custom
>:)CD was pure ISO9660, so I could "dir" it and immediately saw that OF
>:)was appending the ";1" to all (both) of the filenames.
>
><sheepish>It's in the install notes now and it'll be there for the next
>release of NetBSD</sheepish>.  As Makoto Fujiwara said, it ignores any
>filename in the boot-device if you specify partition zero, but if you put
>the wrong kernel name in the boot-file, then it fails.

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