On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:02:38PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > um, something that people informed me about when I hosed my system > was that you can boot the system holding down the cmd-opt-P-R keys, > and it will reset the nvram to the defaults so you can start all > over again trying to get it to boot with OF/quik. When this > actually works (sometimes it takes a couple of tries) my machine did > the chimes twice. my advice is after you reset the nvram, read the > man page for nvsetenv and for quik before doing anything precipitous > like changing your boot-device. it helps to find out for sure what > the disk device is to use. like, is your hard drive set to scsi id > 0 for sure, and like that. if you can get into the OF, check your > aliases to make sure that you have a scsi-int alias, and that it > points to the right scsi bus that your disk is on. My 8500 has two > scsi controllers, and they both have a connector on the motherboard, > but only one is attached to the external connector.
ofpath does all of that for scsi devices. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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