Re: Open Firmware "boot" parameters -- Was: yaboot error - load size is too small

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Saturday, September 25, 2004, at 08:55 AM, Derrik Pates wrote:

> Steve Richter wrote:
> > The 4 files ( yaboot, yaboot.conf, root.bin, linux.bin ) have been
> > copied to the root level of the hard drive.
> > boot the iMac to the open firmware prompt
> > run the command:
> >  boot  hd:0,yaboot
>
> There's no partition 0, _ever_, with an Apple partition map. It 
> doesn't exist. You should do 'boot hd:,\\yaboot' instead. Not 
> specifying a partition number will cause it to search for a volume 
> with a filesystem it knows, and \\ tells it "look in the blessed 
> directory" - which trust me, is important...
>
> -- Derrik Pates
> dpates@dsdk12.net

Derrik,

Can you tell us where the syntax and semantics for this stuff is 
documented -- what one puts after "boot" in talking to Open 
Firmware, and how it interacts with the related environment 
variables?


Thanks!

Rick