Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:11:25PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > A datapoint: on a StarMax 3000/160 (pmac 4400 clone), if I nvsetenv the > > ofpath boot device for an IDE slave device (with the new ofpath you > > emailed me, Ethan), OF gives me: > > > > specified partition is not bootable > > i wonder what this is supposed to mean, is it not bootable in general, > or is the bootblock missing/corrupt/invalid, or is the partition > simply not marked bootable in the partition table.
I don't know, will try to mark it bootable at some point using mac-pdisk (that won't mess up my hard drive, right? :-). > > It boots just fine from a SCSI zip drive, and Ih haven't tested IDE > > master (I'll have to switch the jumpers on the drives), but IDE slave > > fails on this machine. I did nothing to make this zip partition bootable (/dev/sda4), just formatted it using mke2fs, and it works. I'm guessing it's the IDE slave device that's the problem, based totally on hearsay... Thanks, -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe!