Re: 8.0_BETA on Mac Mini G4 with bad CD drive...

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

>> To get that fixed (um, no, "worked around"), I apparently need to
>> break into OFW and do "boot" from there instead.  Help to get that
>> last piece dealt with would be much appreciated.
> 
> IIRC, if OFW detects that there's no monitor connected to the machine
> it will not init the card properly.  To force it, you need to set
> boot-command to something like
> 
>   ." hello" cr " screen" output boot

That worked nicely on my just-inherited PowerMac G4 which also
had this problem.

Regards,

- Håvard