> Sorry to follow up my own post, but you know how it is... > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:37:03PM -0700, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: >> In any case, I was able to get the base distribution installed via the >> potato boot-floppies, leaving only the problem with the potato ofpath >> not liking the beige 266's hardware tree. If I know which partition my >> root is (/dev/hda2), could anybody maybe just tell me what the >> appropriate goop to pass to nvsetenv is? Barring that, anyone have a >> handy binary for ofpath that groks beige G3-land (in case your memory >> needs refreshing, this particular problem last cropped up in a similar >> thread in January -- I do try to use the archives)? I'll poke around, >> but I'd sorta like to get this finished. > > I was able to extract a newer ofpath from the most recent yaboot deb > and get it onto the semi-configured G3 in question. I then issued the > command > > nvsetenv boot-device `./ofpath /dev/hda2`
ofpath /dev/hda2 should give you an OF 'path'. You could also try to figure out the path within OF... from the OF prompt, do 0 > devalias to get a list of device aliases for your machine, 0 > dev / ls for a list of hardware recognized by OF, 0 > dev /path/to/device 0 > words to check if the device is bootable -- 'open' should be in the list. This all shamelessly stolen from the netbsd installation manual. I have a 3.0.7 and 3.0.10 ppc b-f hanging around if you need one. *----------------------------------------------------------------* | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org> | | : :' : | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | `. `'` | . oo Chris Tillman | | `- | ( -) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | *----------------"--"--------------------------------------------*
