On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 08:15:20PM -0500, Ron Murray wrote: > When I press cmd-opt-o-f (should I do this with power off and turn > the box on while holding them down, or can I do it a bit later? If so, > how long do you get to do it?), I get the same sequence as that above. > It may, of course, be trying to display the OF console on the primary > adapter, but I have no way of telling. How do I set OF's input and > output devices?
The timing differs a little on every revision of the firmware. I needed to be holding it down before the chime on my 7600 to get into OF reliably, but some newer ones seem to look for the keys just after the chime. There is a MacOS program to change the OF settings available here: http://penguinppc.org/projects/quik/BootVars.sit.hqx This is most likely the easiest way. If you can get Linux running, you can use nvsetenv. If you have OSX, it comes with nvram, which is equivalent to nvsetenv. The other way would be inside OF, which would be tough considering your problem is getting into it. The input-device should already be "kbd", which was an alias to the ADB keyboard driver on older models. The output-device is probably set to "screen", or perhaps a direct path to the internal video. You'll need to set it to the OF path of your PCI video card. The Linux kernel gives you a copy of the full OF tree in /proc if you have the options for it setup. Brad Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
