Re: OF Issues

[Chris Tillman <tillman@azstarnet.com>]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 07:29:00PM -0500, Scott Fenton wrote:
> Hello. I am currently installing Debian on my PowerMac 8500, and
> I have a problem. I installed quik, and ran 
> 'nvsetenv boot-device `ofpath /dev/sda5`', with sda5 being my root 
> partition. When I then reboot, the computer sounds twice, and then 
> the screen goes black. You can only recover from this by doing 
> Alt-Opt-P-R and restoring the defaults. Does anyone know what I'm
> doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated.

Also, for quik, you need :0 rather than :5 at the end of the
path. What does ofpath return for you? You may need to nvsetenv
boot-device with a slightly modified path rather than depend on the
results of ofpath.

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