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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 $
.\" $NetBSD: install,v 1.41 2019/10/06 17:56:45 gutteridge Exp $
.
.Ss2 Open Firmware boot syntax
.
@ -808,6 +808,17 @@ and for Open Firmware 3 machines, it must be either XCOFF or ELF (such as
a kernel).
Make sure that you have use binary mode to FTP the files, and
that they are properly uncompressed.
.Pp
NB this error will occur with pre-release ISO installer images, because
they are automatically generated, and it is not presently possible to create
the necessary hybrid ISO9660/HFS image format without manual steps. Only
formal release ISO installer images are bootable. If you wish to test a pre-
release, you must start with an
.Pa ofwboot.xcf
or
.Pa ofwboot.elf
installed from a formal release (or place a newer version of such in a
location that is bootable from), and then use that to boot the newer kernel.
.It
.To 2 "bad partition number, using 0no bootable HFS partition"
.Dq Li "bad partition number, using 0no bootable HFS partition"