On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:58:57PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > if you are lucky all you need to change is the boot-device variable, > like this: > > nvsetenv boot-device "$(ofpath /dev/sda)0" > > try ofpath /dev/sda first to see if it supports that machine, ofpath > supports most oldworlds but i may have missed a few, people need to > send me more device-trees.
I took a stab at getting quik to work on my Daystar Genesis MP the other day. (no luck, sticking with bootx. I'll have to get myself an adapter for the Mac serial port, since OF seems to reset it input-device and output-device to ttya, even if I use nvsetenv and apply the OF vulcan keyboard pinch after shutdown -r now. :(. I had to install the yaboot package to get ofpath. Shouldn't it be in a more generic package like macutils (or something), instead of yaboot, since it is useful even on systems that can't use yaboot. If it doesn't support a given machine, will it produce broken paths, or will it not work at all? > > what would be the thing i have to do now ? > > given the boot floppies are broken at the moment you can either > bootstrap with macos, erase macos, install debian, and hope you get > quik working (you will almost certianly need a serial terminal to > access OpenFirmware and see what is going on). or leave macos, > install debian alongside and use bootx, which is really a pretty > hideous setup. It's not bad as long as you don't reboot very often... I wish I had my drives partitioned better, though. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
