On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >there is always quikboot, works fine on my machine. For setting OF > >parameters, check the manpage of 'nvsetenv'. You will find usefull > >information there. > > > >Unfortunately, when booting MacOS, they like to erase the OF settings to > >default. There is a program called systemdisk. I found very useful > >information about OF on the netbsd.org homepage under PowerPC. They have > >also patches for buggy OF's. > > No, when using miBoot, the problem is that the boot setting is not OF That is what I said (or what quik is): quik starts from OF. I understand that if you start from OF that everything is working fine? > one, it's the MacOS boot partition info in the PRAM that must be changed, > and the format is weird, it's a cooked value returned by the MacOS driver > for this disk that is stored there, and compared to what all drivers > return during boot to pick a boot one. > > I'll look into adding a feature to miBoot that would display a list of > all available disks/partitions and change the default boot setting. > > Ben. >
