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Re: OF reset ?



On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:06:27PM -0700, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> "Ethan Benson" <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 08:03:31PM +0100, Arne Scheffler wrote:
> 
> > > i made a little mistake in configuring the yaboot.conf.
> > > I forgot that i've got now a scsi disc, where linux
> > > exists on. so now i can't get into the openfirmware
> > > (with command-option-O-F)
> 
> > ybin does nothing to OF that prevents `command option o f' from
> > getting you an OF prompt, in fact it can't do anything to prevent
> > this.  you just  need to hold these keys down while the machine boots,
> > since there is a very short window for which it will be noticed.  
> 
> It was interesting, but I had a similar problem. At some point, yaboot
> stopped listening to my keyboard on boot. Everything booted and worked
> fine, but then I built a new 2.4.x kernel to test a firewire HD on my
> pismo and I ran into trouble. 
> 
> The kernel wouldn't boot, and I couldn't type a different image name
> into yaboot. I tried command-option-O-F, and all I got was a black
> screen. Eventually I got into MacOS by holding down the option key and
> booting the visual bootloader, and choosing MacOS. 
> 
> Running the Apple 'System Disk' utility cleared up all the issues. I
> can now boot into OF, and yaboot accepts input....

sounds like nvram corruption, macos causes this.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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