Add a note about pre-release ISO installers not being bootable. Relates
to PR port-macppc/54537. (This needs to also be placed in a more prominent location. I've added it next to the explanation of the error message for starters.)
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.\" $NetBSD: install,v 1.40 2018/11/13 18:48:25 scole Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: install,v 1.41 2019/10/06 17:56:45 gutteridge Exp $
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.Ss2 Open Firmware boot syntax
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@ -808,6 +808,17 @@ and for Open Firmware 3 machines, it must be either XCOFF or ELF (such as
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a kernel).
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Make sure that you have use binary mode to FTP the files, and
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that they are properly uncompressed.
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.Pp
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NB this error will occur with pre-release ISO installer images, because
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they are automatically generated, and it is not presently possible to create
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the necessary hybrid ISO9660/HFS image format without manual steps. Only
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formal release ISO installer images are bootable. If you wish to test a pre-
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release, you must start with an
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.Pa ofwboot.xcf
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or
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.Pa ofwboot.elf
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installed from a formal release (or place a newer version of such in a
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location that is bootable from), and then use that to boot the newer kernel.
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.It
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.To 2 "bad partition number, using 0no bootable HFS partition"
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.Dq Li "bad partition number, using 0no bootable HFS partition"
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