Re: more problems with Openfirmware on a Mac G4
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 09:40:45AM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm having some trouble getting yaboot to load on a Mac G4. I've been
> trying to figure out the syntax of the OpenFirmware and I think I'm
> telling it to load yaboot found at the root of the cd (this isn't the
> install cd, but rather one that I created just to see if I could get
> yaboot going):
>
> 0> boot cd:,yaboot
>
> With this command I get the following output (continued on the same
> line):
>
> 0> boot cd:,yaboot load-size=39b adler32=39b0001
> unrecognized Client Program format
>
> Could someone who's familiar with OpenFirmware please verify that I am
> actually trying to load a program named yaboot that is located at the
> root level of the cd.
> If I am indeed trying to load the right program and anyone has an idea
> how to get around the above problem I'd really like to hear (or read ;)
> that.
>
Check with the yaboot people at penguinppc.org. If you made your own
CD manualy rather than just using a provided iso image, there's a
chance yaboot got corrupted somehow.
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