this patch corrects the shell command necessary to set the OpenFirmware boot-device variable on oldworlds. note that this command may not render all oldworlds bootable, and it may not work with the ofpath in potato. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
Index: dbootstrap.sgml
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RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/documentation/en/dbootstrap.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.62
diff -u -r1.62 dbootstrap.sgml
--- dbootstrap.sgml 2001/05/17 02:27:44 1.62
+++ dbootstrap.sgml 2001/05/29 01:59:27
@@ -809,8 +809,8 @@
to be booted when you reboot. To make &debian; boot you need to select
&Execute-a-Shell; and run:
-<example>nvsetenv `ofpath /dev/sda2`</example> where
- <file>/dev/sda2</file> is your root partition. Perform this
+<example>nvsetenv boot-device "$(ofpath /dev/sda)0"</example> where
+ <file>/dev/sda</file> is your root disk. Perform this
step after running &Make-Linux-Bootable-Directly-From-Hard-Disk;.
<sect1>``NewWorld'' PowerMacs
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