On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:44:53AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:43:40AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a bunch of 7200 Macs that I want to turn into servers, and I'm having > > trouble getting them to boot without the monitor. I've tried it on a > > 7300 and a beige g3, and they work fine without a monitor. > > > > Are there any tricks that will let me do this? Maybe a resistor or > > something that will make MacOS _think_ there is a monitor there? > > yes, don't use bootx, use quik. quik works fine on these machines. > > just setup a simple /etc/quik.conf with your image= line pointing at > the REAL kernel in /boot (which is not a partition) and not a > symlink. then run /sbin/quik and the following: > > nvsetenv boot-device "$(ofpath /dev/sda)0" > > the ending 0 is important and not a typo. > > it will now boot with quik. >
Success! With debian2.2r3 kerenel and custom kernel. nvsetenv boot-command "begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again" nvsetenv boot-device "$(ofpath /dev/sda)0" #edit link instead of /etc/quik.conf ln -f /boot/vmlinux-2.2.19 /boot/vmlinux Changes to /etc/quik.conf: append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n8" #image=/vmlinux image=/boot/vmlinux Why is quik setup to point to a symlink on initial install if it doesn't support them? Now, to see if quik will work with MacOS installed... Future machines will be MacOSless, but I have some machines that I depend on that have MacOS as their linux boot loader... Including the firewall and IPsec gateway. It would be cool to have (I still have a MacOS backup system) :( MacOS on the system with BootX, and in the linux init scripts, rerun the lines above. To get to MacOS, just reset boot-device, and up comes MacOS. BootX back to linux, and you have a seemingly MacOSless system, quik restarts and everything. That's what I want to get. I'll put in the testing... Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/proc$ cat cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 601 clock : 120MHz revision : 0.2 bogomips : 119.69 zero pages : total 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/214 (0%) machine : Power Macintosh motherboard : AAPL,7300 MacRISC memory : 32MB pmac-generation : OldWorld drive-serve:/proc# nvsetenv little-endian? false real-mode? false auto-boot? true diag-switch? false fcode-debug? false oem-banner? false oem-logo? false use-nvramrc? true real-base 0x1f00000 real-size 0x100000 virt-base 0xffffffff virt-size 0x100000 load-base 0x4000 pci-probe-list 0xffffffff screen-#columns 0x64 screen-#rows 0x28 selftest-#megs 0x0 boot-device /bandit/gc/53c94/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 boot-file diag-device fd:diags diag-file input-device ttya output-device ttya oem-banner oem-logo nvramrc [snip, editor will kill output] boot-command begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again
