On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 05:04:24AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > I have been getting some reports of display problems with ybin's > bootscript (the new one) one some machines, and trying to find a way > to solve it. i am not entirely sure how yaboot writes things to the > screen, but i would be interested to see if ybin 0.26's bootscript > (when configured to display a menu) works on your machine. > unfortunatly its not packaged (0.23 is using very different Forth > code) the current script writes text directly into the framebuffer > rather then with the OF console output (which does not work AFAICT) I think it is apple's attempt to make things look like there is no OF, and the computer just boots MacOS. If you press CMD-OPT-OF and then type boot, the output comes out. Have you tried changing the boot command to boot rather than mac-boot. boot might allow the screen output to come out. > i am getting VERY tempted to disable the mac-boot command altogether > but 1) that is not a great solution and 2) it still may not solve all > the problems. Would it hurt to have boot be the normal boot command, and then is MacOS is selected, then run mac-boot? Dave Brown
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