Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 01:22:00PM -0700, Chris Baker wrote: > > > > > O.k. I've been playing around with this on my powerbook (which > > thankfully has video under OF), and I think I'm almost there. A few > > more questions, and I'll be all set. > > > > The boot-hfs-image floppy works great. I can type `bye' to boot to > > ROM, and it boots the system on the floppy just fine. But the > > installer doesn't have nvsetenv on it, so how do I boot to my > > installed system (remember that I'm trying to get rid of the macos > > partition here)? The boot-hfs-image floppy wants the root floppy; is > > there some way to get it to mount the root file system off the > > harddrive? I tried to get dbootstrap to make me a boot floppy, but it > > says that it isn't supported. I also tried to boot a rescue floppy, > > but OF said it couldn't load it. I know that it *used* to be possible > > to OF boot a floppy, because when I first installed R4 (linuxppc) this > > was the only way to reliably boot linux (this was pre-BootX). > > > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated :-) > > > boot into OF and run: > > setenv boot-device foo/bar/@0:0 > > where foo/bar... is you REAL OF boot device.
Thanks, Ethan, that's a good point. Still, I'd like a solution that works without booting into OF, since my powercenter 132 has a particularly broken implementation thereof. Maybe it's just a matter of adding nvsetenv to root.bin. I can just mount it via the loop device and add it, right? I'd still really like to build a floppy that can OF boot. Does anyone know why this doesn't work? TIA, cbb
