Quoting Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 07:08:41PM +0200, Hadess wrote: > > > > Right now, I'm using "boot" to boot my computer. From the install doc > I sent: > > "setenv boot-device hd:9,yaboot" > > you shouldn't have to do this..
Otherwise it booted MacOS, so yes, I had to do this... > > Then I type boot, or reboot the 'puter, and off you go. Of course if > ybin does > > some nasty things behind my back... > > the newer versions of ybin set the boot-device variable to > hd:X,\\:tbxi unless you add nonvram to yaboot.conf. this is normally > preferable since it ensures the bootstrap partition gets booted > correctly. if for any reason this does not work for you that needs to > be fixed because most people don't want to mess with OF. > > > Bonus question: would this work with airport :P > > i don't know, so long as OpenFirmware has been tought how to boot from > that device yes it will work. there is nothing really special about > netbooting. (unless enet:0 is different then my example yaboot.conf > won't work...) > > > BTW, with new machines it is possible to boot off some USB-devices, > this has > > been asked a couple of days ago. The OF path, by default is zip: > > hmm... odd since zip: points at the secondary slave device on most > desktop machines... OK, wrong alias. But it is possible, according to these 2 pages: http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n58430 http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#boot-support If somebody could try getting the alias or the complete name for it. Setting up a Zip, or a USB hard-drive as the Startup Disk in MacOS, getting in the Open Firmware, and displaying the "boot-device" (dunno, how to do that though...) /Hadess http://hadess.net
