Re: German Keyboard and OF boot device?
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 01:45:42PM +0200, LATBauerdick wrote:
>
> Excuse me if this is a FAQ:
>
> I'm trying to get yaboot running on my iMac with a German keyboard, but I
> encounter a fatal obstacle:
>
> I understand that the setup involves to define the boot device in OF, which
> unfortunately means that one has to type in a line containing some
> backslashes.
>
> It turns out that a German keyboard does not send the necessary key codes to
> generate a backslash! I had notices this before with an older distribution
> of linuxppc - in debian potato and LinuxPPC2000 this now works fine w/o
> xmodmap.
>
> However, at the OF prompt (after booting with command option OF) I do not
> find a way to send the necessary back-slashes!
>
> (BTW, the "nvsetenv" command from the LinuxPPC distribution seems to be
> broken?)
>
> Who can help me with this one?
I can't help you with most of it, but I can add: nvsetenv works on
oldworld only as far as I know. Has anyone patched it to work on
newworld nvram?
Dan
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