Re: Q: double Boot for SMP 7300
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >there is always quikboot, works fine on my machine. For setting OF
> >parameters, check the manpage of 'nvsetenv'. You will find usefull
> >information there.
> >
> >Unfortunately, when booting MacOS, they like to erase the OF settings to
> >default. There is a program called systemdisk. I found very useful
> >information about OF on the netbsd.org homepage under PowerPC. They have
> >also patches for buggy OF's.
>
> No, when using miBoot, the problem is that the boot setting is not OF
That is what I said (or what quik is): quik starts from OF. I understand
that if you start from OF that everything is working fine?
> one, it's the MacOS boot partition info in the PRAM that must be changed,
> and the format is weird, it's a cooked value returned by the MacOS driver
> for this disk that is stored there, and compared to what all drivers
> return during boot to pick a boot one.
>
> I'll look into adding a feature to miBoot that would display a list of
> all available disks/partitions and change the default boot setting.
>
> Ben.
>
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