On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:42:56AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Usage: nvsetenv variable value > > Cool. I'll try this a bit later, and contribute to the docs on this if I get > a > chance. Maybe even an ncurses front-end matching Boot Variables' functions, > or > debconf for quik? Other ideas? (To make it user-friendly.)
well ideally if there were a way to match /dev/ nodes with OF device paths quik could be modifed to set the boot-device as a part of its installation procedure (with an option in quik.conf to disable of course) i want to do this with ybin, but in addition to the node -> OF path problem nvsetenv does not work on newworld machines. fortunatly you don't need to set the boot-device at all on newworlds if you use IDE disks (the defaults will do just fine) > What about /proc/device-tree, which is copied from OF on boot? (I think > that's the > name, I'm not at my home machine now.) its there, but that only gives us the OF device tree, we still have no idea what /proc/device-tree/foo/bar is in /dev. SuSE wrote an extremely obfuscated shell script to try and figure this out, but when i tested it on my blue G3 it always comes up with incorrect OF paths. I am certian this is because they are making hard coded assumptions about too many things. (which there is no way around currently, that is not a good enough solution for an automated system) all we could do at this point is guess, and i think guessing and coming up with the wrong answer most of the time is less helpful then just making the user figure it out themself. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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