Re: Help:-- Beige G3 boot problem
From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
To: PowerPC <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Help:-- Beige G3 boot problem
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 22:21:34 -0800
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 08:02:52PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
>
> and nvsetenv (without arguments). Also, you might try booting into Open
> Firmware using the cmd-opt-o-f combination at boot. If you get an OF
prompt,
> you can then check the list of devices OF recognizes using
>
> dev / ls
>
> and check the list of valid aliases using
>
> devalias
Dear Mr Tillman and Mr Benson,
I am using the 2.2R3 cds. Here is the output of the dev /ls and
devalias (not all of it)..
dev / ls
/pci@00000000 [grackle]
/mac-io@10 [heathrow]
....
/ide@20000 [heathrow-ata]
/disk@0,0 [atapi-disk]
/ide@21000 [heathrow-ata]
/disk@0,0 [atapi-disk]
the output of devalias is..
pci /pci@00000000
mac-io /pci/mac-io
ide0 /pci/mac-io/ide@20000
ide /pci/mac-io/ide@20000
ata-int /pci/mac-io/ide@20000
ide1 /pci/mac-io/ide@20000
note that ofpath reads aliases, it prints the canonical path.
> The idea is to see if ofpath is returning a valid hardware path for your
> drive. You might also try typing in ofpath's result literally into
>
> nvsetenv boot-device path-ofpath-returns
>
> because some versions of ofpath on some machines were putting bogus
> invisible characters into the path. btw, the path should end with :0
despite
> the fact your root is on partition 6.
yes and in fact that broken ofpath is what is in potato.
the output of ofpath for /dev/hda6 is
/pci/mac-io/ide@20000/ata-disk@0:6
now what do i need to give the arguments for the nvsetenv command?
I am from a wintel world and if this seems to be elementary please excuse
the newbie.
Thank you gentlemen for your help,
sincerely
sridhar kodela
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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