Re: touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux

[Brendan J Simon <brendan.simon@ctam.com.au>]

Michael Lyngbøl wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 04:11:28PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > >
> > > Still not able to boot directly into Linux.
> > >
> > > I've haven't figured out how booting of a PowerPC works? I suppose I'm
> > > missing something?
> >
> > I'm guessing you need to use nvsetenv.  You'll have to set boot-device;
> > probably to "scsi-int/sd@0:0" or something like that.
>
> hmm ... now I've totally messed it up. Now it won't boot anything.
>
> Switching it on the screen just stays blank.
>
> Is it possible some how to reset the machine to factory defaults?

I think holding down the ctrl-apple-P-R key combination will do it for you.  The
P-R stands for Parameter RAM.

Brendan Simon.