On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 06:53:43PM +0200, morten wrote: > > It sounds like you're probably dying in Open Firmware, particularly if that > > path was typed wrong. Have you booted into Open Firmware? > You mean the /bandit/... path? > abd how do I know if I boot into open firmware when the machine starts with a black screen and appears by all accounts dead. > I assume the modem port is the one with the phone icon next to it :-) yes > I will have to ask around if anyone has suche a cable. > It is possible to do it through the net port? no > is the OF prompt some kind of bios-based terminal on macs? yes sort of. its a Forth environment. the OF prompt is `0 >' > You're suggesting that I have asked it to boot from a partition or device > which doesn't exist? and by going througt the modem port I may rectify that? yes > so it is this part which is wrong > # nvsetenv boot-device /bandit/gc/53c94/sd@0:0 > what should it have been instead? no that was correct. quik was not installed on your drive. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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