At Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:19:22 -0800, Brad Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:09:03PM -0500, Ron Murray wrote: > > Hmmm. I've set the output device to the PCI display with BootVars, > > but I still don't see anything. (I think the machine comes up a bit > > faster now, but I could be imagining things). I still can't get into OF: > > there's a pause, then it comes up into MacOS. Is there a trick to this > > or something? > > It's possible that the video card doesn't like OF. The internal > video in the 7200 was like that. > > > One possibility is that we don't have a real Mac keyboard here, > > although the two we have are designed for use with a Mac. and the power > > key, option and command keys work for everything else. > > Any ADB keyboard should work. > > > Is there any point trying to redirect OF to a serial port? If so, > > what's the OF path for the serial ports? > > The serial is likely to be more reliable. It's normally ttya and ttyb > for the two ports. The ttya is usually the modem port. You might want > to take a look at some of the documentation. > > http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1061.html > http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2023.html
Thanks for that, and I'll look it up. I did manage to get the thing into OF on bootup by turning off autoboot in BootVars. I also cleared the boot command string for good measure. So now I just need to poke around OF and see what I can see. I've played with the same stuff on a couple of Sun boxes, so I know some of it at least, including Forth. And, yes, the 'boot' command from OF gets me into MacOS just like it's supposed to. Thanks, .....Ron -- Ron Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.rjmx.net/~ron GPG Public Key Fingerprint: F2C1 FC47 5EF7 0317 133C D66B 8ADA A3C4 D86C 74DE
