Subject: Re: Beige G3 - Unable to boot install
To: Christopher Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
From: Ben Jansen <netbsd@kristamin.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/11/2002 17:43:45
On Wednesday, Dec 11, 2002, at 17:09 US/Pacific, Christopher Tribo
wrote:
>> Which OF patch? The only one I see mentioned is one for OF 1.05.
>
> It should be installed to OpenFirmware from within MacOS when you
> click Power User, then save.
Then it's probably installed. I did modify auto-boot and display and
save using System Disk.
>> Hmmm, I tried a variation on this, like so:
>>
>> setenv boot-device ide0/disk@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF;1
>> setenv boot-file NETBSD.MACPPC;1
>> reset-all
>> 0 bootr
>
> You might have better luck using ide0/disk@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF;1 and
> leaving boot-file blank or using ide0/@0:0 and use boot-file
> OFWBOOT.XCF;1
Thanks for the advice. I tried both methods. The first yields the same
error messages as "boot ide/disk@0:0,OFBOOT.XCF;1 NETBSD.MACPPC;1". The
second yields "loader: unrecognized client program format state not
valid".
Thanks,
Ben