On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, charlie allom wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, JHS wrote:
> 
> > 1. forced reboot into OF.
> > 2.  setenv boot-file ofwboot.xcf (because I have OF 2.01)
> 
> ok i know that the books say you should do this, but i *think* the
> boot-file environment variable just get's passed to the bootloader ( /boot
> - am i wrong?) so setting it to 'netbsd' will tell /boot to load netbsd.

First:  thanks again for your gracious help.
I tried it both ways and neither works...

> 
> > 3.  setenv boot-command 0 bootr
> 
> i find this isn't required.

I read that in your earlier email so I reset it to the default "boot".
Still no luck.

> 
> > This yielded a black screen and nothing more.
> 
> im getting black screens on a 'reboot' or a 'shutdown -r now' not sure
> what this is.
> 
> > I booted into OF again and simply typed:
> > boot ide0/@0:0,ofwboot.xcf
> 
> with your setenv's you shouldn't need to specify these on the command
> line. just 'boot' will read your setenv's. so typing this all after
> setting setenv's makes all your environment variables a pointless
> exercise.

That's what I thought...but I wasn't certain.

> 
> > that made it work (namely: boot ide0/@0:0,ofwboot.xcf) I just get a flashing "I
> > can't see the System folder" icon.  When I try to just let it boot by itself
> > (without forcing it into OF) I just get the same flashing "?" 
> 
> well once you get the flashing ? or the flashing X with the grey screen it
> means you've hit the Mac's ROM. which you don't want to do. you'll find it
> is a default boot-device (/APPL,ROM or somesuch)
> 
> try a 'printenv boot-device' to see what you are set to. make sure the
> boot-device is that ide0 stuff.

My printenv yields:
boot-device ide0/@0:0
boot-file  netbsd
boot-command  boot

So I typed 'boot' and I got this error:
boot can't OPEN: ide0/@0:0

I thought this was because I needed to set the boot-file to 'ofwboot.xcf' but
even that doesn't work.  Did I corrupt my drive when I force-restarted the
powerbook?  Or am I still missing something obvious?  Like I said, it worked
_once_ when I typed:
boot ide0/@0:0,ofwboot.xcf
but that no longer works.  Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Jeff