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Re: Help:-- Beige G3 boot problem. Got around it,

I decided to try the Mac OS method. I partitioned the hard drive and put Mac OS 9 on a 1GB partition. The installed BootX, copied the kernel into system folder along with extensions and ramdisk.
system boots fine and i am able to do the base install and rebooted back to BootX and can get into linux no problems (knock on wood).
Chris and Ethan thanks for your support in my attempts to get the system going. 

sincerely
sridhar kodela



From: "Sridhar Kodela" <sridharkodela@hotmail.com>
To: tillman@azstarnet.com, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Help:-- Beige G3 boot problem
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 15:06:05 -0500





From: "Chris Tillman" <tillman@azstarnet.com>
To: Sridhar Kodela <sridharkodela@hotmail.com>,
debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Help:-- Beige G3 boot problem
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 20:43:08 -0700

> 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?
>

Try

nvsetenv /pci/mac-io/ide@20000/ata-disk@0:0


when i tried this command it gave me variable not called error.  I tried
nvsetenv boot-device /pci/mac-io/ide@20000/ata-disk@0:0 this did not give me 
the error but when I reboot I am getting

 can't open: /pci/mac-io/ide@20000/ata-disk@0:0 error on a white screen (i
am guessing the OF screen?)

also do I need to setup another variable I found in some documentation on
the web that says boot-file?

thank you
sridhar kodela
sridharkodela@hotmail.com


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