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

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Ethan Benson wrote:

> 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.

I don't know, will try to mark it bootable at some point using mac-pdisk (that
won't mess up my hard drive, right? :-).

> > 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.

I did nothing to make this zip partition bootable (/dev/sda4), just formatted it
using mke2fs, and it works.

I'm guessing it's the IDE slave device that's the problem, based totally on
hearsay...

Thanks,

-Adam P.

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