>>>>> "pippo" == pippo poppo <fightpenguin@yahoo.it> writes:

    pippo> today i ' have downloaded the latest snapshot of netbsd
    pippo> kernel and put it and ofwboot.* on / of macos X.

You mean -current kernel and ofwboot.* I guess...

    pippo> Then at openfirmare i write boot hd:9,ofwboot.xcf
    pippo> netbsd.gz
    pippo> and then the program print only 
    pippo> oading XCOFF
    pippo>  tsize=C280 dsize=14AC bsize=2620 entry=600000
    pippo>  SECTIONS:
    pippo>  .text    00600000 00600000 0000C280 000000E0
    pippo>  .data    0060D000 0060D000 000014AC 0000C360
    pippo>  .bss     0060E4B0 0060E4B0 00002620 00000000
    pippo>  loading .text, done..
    pippo>  loading .data, done..

... where this is a known problem of ofwboot.*.

You can try branch-1.6's ofwboot.* instead for now:

  ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-1-6-PATCH002-RC1/200310301830/macppc/installation

Markus.