Re: OF Issues

[Chris Tillman <tillman@azstarnet.com>]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:20:19PM -0500, Scott Fenton wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:21:44PM -0700, the keyboard of Chris Tillman was alleged to have written:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> ofpath returns "/bandit/gc/mesh/sd@0:5"

Ah hah. so

nvsetenv boot-device /bandit/gc/mesh/sd@0:0

should work better. Oldworlds use boot blocks, and although quik writes
the boot block on a given partition, old broken versions of open
firmware must be pointed to the '0' partition to read the boot block.


-- 
*------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------*
|      <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual>      |
|   debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net>   |
|            Chris Tillman        tillman@azstarnet.com          |
|                   May the Source be with you                   |
*----------------------------------------------------------------*