Re: won't boot if I don't enter open-firmware

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 Thanks very much!

This was exactly the solution.

cheers

bruce

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:39:49PM -0500, Donald Lee wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:37:14PM -0400, Michael wrote:
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> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> On Aug 10, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> >> 
> >> >Hi,
> >> >
> >> >Ok, this is odd.
> >> >
> >> >I have a PowerMac G4/400 AGP, and a PowerBook G4/667 (TiBook) and  
> >> >both of them run NetBSD fine.
> >> >
> >> >What they don't do fine is boot from powerup without a stop in  
> >> >openfirmware.
> >> >
> >> >If set auto-boot? to false, then when I drop into open-firmware type  
> >> >'boot' everything is fine.
> >> >But with auto-boot? to true they just make it to a gray screen and  
> >> >stop.  No text.
> >> >
> >> >I've tried the two different delayed boot commands in the install  
> >> >notes and both of
> >> >them produce a black screen and nothing.
> >> 
> >> What matters is to trick OF into initializing the graphics hardware,  
> >> there have been several scripts posted here, no clue which ones ou're  
> >> referring to.
> >
> >The ones I tried were the ones from the 5.0.1 install notes:
> >
> >0 > setenv boot-command catch 5000 ms boot
> >0 > setenv boot-command begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again
> >
> >This wasn't the right guess :-)
> >
> >
> >cheers
> >
> >bruce
> 
> My recollection is that you have to add a
> 
>       " screen" output boot
> 
> definition to the boot.  The '" screen" output' is what inits the graphics,
> and if you don't do that, it won't boot.
> 
> Note that the space after the quote is NOT a typo.
> 
> There is  reference to this somewhere in the install docs, as I recall.
> 
> -dgl-