i simply type at the openfirmware cli

boot hd:,ofwboot /bsd




On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Super Biscuit <[email protected]>wrote:

> --- On Thu, 7/29/10, Christian Neukirchen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Christian Neukirchen <[email protected]>
> Subject: ofwboot of 4.7 cannot boot HFS
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 11:13 PM
>
> Hi,
>
> I just spent several hours figuring out that the ofwboot shipped with
> 4.7 apparently can't load bsd.rd from a freshly formatted HFS partition
> (made from the OS X 10.4 rescue CD on a Power Mac G4).  I reverted to
> the version in 4.0(!) which immediately worked.
>
> I read that ofwboot was broken in this regard in 4.1 and 4.2, is it
> possible it still hasn't been fixed yet?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Christian Neukirchen  <[email protected]>  http://chneukirchen.org
>
>
> It usually boots directly from the command line/forth/openfw.
> No HFS partition.

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