On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 05:46:05PM -0700, Sam Powers wrote: > hmm, when running ybin with nonvram commented out, i get: > ybin: Warning: Incompatible version of `nvsetenv', nvram will not be updated hmm, maybe dan didn't include `unstable' in the powerpc-utils upload... install the powerpc-utils package from potato-proposed-updates, that will fix this problem. > No thanks. :) ;-) > Just tried changing yaboot.conf as you suggested.. since it can't do the > nvsetenv, i figure i've gotta boot into of to change the variable.. after > changing the conf (removed ofboot), i did ybin then mkofboot -v, is that the > right order? the of session looked something like this: thats redundant ;-) mkofboot and ybin do EXACTLY the same thing EXCEPT, mkofboot erases and creates a new HFS filesystem first. you only really need to run mkofboot once, then ybin from there on after. for a dedicated bootstrap partition your certainly free to run mkofboot every time instead of ybin though. > 0 > setenv boot-device hd:7,\\:tbxi ok > 0 > boot can't OPEN: hd:7,\\:tbxi this is strange. can you run: hmount /dev/hda7 hls -la hcopy :ofboot.b /tmp humount and mail me /tmp/ofboot.b (privately, no need to spam the list with such a large file) i want to make sure its being generated properly. > ok > 0 > set-defaults ok > 0 > boot hd:7,\\yaboot > [kicked into macos] now this is REALLY wierd here, macos should never boot when your mucking around in the OF prompt. have you tried boot hd:7,yaboot instead? also try: boot hd:7,ofboot.b and dir hd:7 the only other thing i can think of is hd: is not the right alias, but does not seem likely.. do a printenv boot-device after that set-defaults and tell me what it is (should be hd:,\\:tbxi) > Man, how I wish we just had a plain boot sector, and a nice working version of > grub! so do i... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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