Re: Oldworld OF boot questions
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 01:22:00PM -0700, Chris Baker wrote:
> The boot-hfs-image floppy works great. I can type `bye' to boot to
> ROM, and it boots the system on the floppy just fine. But the
> installer doesn't have nvsetenv on it, so how do I boot to my
> installed system (remember that I'm trying to get rid of the macos
> partition here)? The boot-hfs-image floppy wants the root floppy; is
> there some way to get it to mount the root file system off the
> harddrive? I tried to get dbootstrap to make me a boot floppy, but it
> says that it isn't supported. I also tried to boot a rescue floppy,
> but OF said it couldn't load it. I know that it *used* to be possible
> to OF boot a floppy, because when I first installed R4 (linuxppc) this
> was the only way to reliably boot linux (this was pre-BootX).
Umm... ack? If I have time I will see about getting nvsetenv on there.
Otherwise, here is a MUCH easier way. I'm pretty sure that nvsetenv is
in base2_2.tgz. After you run "install the base system", go to tty2,
hit enter to activate it, and type chroot /target. Then you can use
nvsetenv.
Dan
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