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Re: Call for info: slave drives bootable from OpenFirmware (OldWorld)



On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:11:25PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> A datapoint: on a StarMax 3000/160 (pmac 4400 clone), if I nvsetenv the
> ofpath boot device for an IDE slave device (with the new ofpath you
> emailed me, Ethan), OF gives me:
> 
>      specified partition is not bootable

i wonder what this is supposed to mean, is it not bootable in general,
or is the bootblock missing/corrupt/invalid, or is the partition
simply not marked bootable in the partition table. 

> It boots just fine from a SCSI zip drive, and Ih haven't tested IDE
> master (I'll have to switch the jumpers on the drives), but IDE slave
> fails on this machine.
> 
> Zeen,
> 
> -Adam P.
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