On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:40:17PM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > > 7600/132, with G3/300 processor upgrade, OF version 1.0.5, booting from > internal SCSI disk. Note that OF 1.0.5 is broken (as far as we know) in > that you can't select a partition to boot from; it will use the first it > finds. Therefore I'm still using the quik installed on my old R4 root > partition ;-). I'll try reinstalling quik on my current root partition > one of these days.... interesting, i thought OF was supposed to boot the partition marked bootable. when you use partition 0. even so that isn't really that big a deal, just make sure quik is only installed on the partition you want. and dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdaX bs=1k count=1 on the rest. > 'test' is my current 2.4 kernel; I'm selecting it via OF's boot-file > variable. Here are the OF settings: > > boot-device scsi-int/sd@1:0 (internal SCSI ID 1) > boot-file test (I think the leading space here is required) > boot-command begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again same as the 7200 then. i know someone booting quik on a 7200 and they didn't need the special boot-command, the disks must be fast enough i suppose. > (all others except nvramrc are at defaults) what is in the nvramrc? > the boot-command catches SCSI disks that are slow at spinning up. yup ive seen that before. > Also, on all chaos-based machines, your quik wrapper could patch OF to > correctly drive the chaos display under OF.... Let me know if you need > the patch. Or, include a means for user-specified nvramrc patches, and > pre-load it with the chaos patch. well, i think it would have to use external user supplied patches, unless they are under a licence that permits free distribution. apple's licence is not. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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