On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 01:45:42PM +0200, LATBauerdick wrote: > > Excuse me if this is a FAQ: > > I'm trying to get yaboot running on my iMac with a German keyboard, but I > encounter a fatal obstacle: > > I understand that the setup involves to define the boot device in OF, which > unfortunately means that one has to type in a line containing some > backslashes. > > It turns out that a German keyboard does not send the necessary key codes to > generate a backslash! I had notices this before with an older distribution > of linuxppc - in debian potato and LinuxPPC2000 this now works fine w/o > xmodmap. > > However, at the OF prompt (after booting with command option OF) I do not > find a way to send the necessary back-slashes! > > (BTW, the "nvsetenv" command from the LinuxPPC distribution seems to be > broken?) > > Who can help me with this one?
I can't help you with most of it, but I can add: nvsetenv works on oldworld only as far as I know. Has anyone patched it to work on newworld nvram? Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
