Hi, I had this problem a while ago too. As far as I remember I posted an answer to your question. Look in the archives of last month for a thread 'NEWBIE: bootdisk for powermac'. I have the OF parms at home, I do not remember them now. 'man nvsetenv' will help you a lot.
Greetz, Sebastiaan On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 06:55:32PM +0100, Jaap Looijen wrote: > > I've installed Patato on my PPC ( Bull Estrella -> Motorola PPC) > > > > During installation , its very fast with the action for 'make the harddisk > > bootable' > > :sigh: please read the installation docs, it says that running this > step alone is NOT enough to make the machine bootable. you also need > to reconfigure OpenFirmware, there is a command in the documentation > that changes the boot-device variable which on some machines is > enough. > > > And it will not boot from harddisk. It boots ok from floppy ! > > I've searched but i can not find lilo , > > lilo is a intel only bootloader. Oldworld powermacs use quik. > newworld powermacs use yaboot/ybin. you have an oldworld. > > > how to make my harddisk bootable ? > > read the install docs and set the boot-device variable in OF, that may > be enough, if not check the list archives for other suggestions. > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ >
