Hi, Strictly speaking, this is not a Debian issue, not even Linux, but since I don't know of any Open Firmware list, and it may be just a matter of time before someone else tries this...
I wrote the following two lines into OF nvramrc parameter with 'nvedit' (Read this to the end before trying yourself!): devalias usb /p...@f2000000/u...@19/d...@1 dev /options " usb" open-dev dup if close-dev " usb:,\\:tbxi" " boot-device" property else drop then I ran this manually with 'nvrun' and achieved what I wanted: (1) if there was a USB stick plugged-in on boot, the boot-device shown by '.properties' was changed to 'usb:,\\:tbxi' (The boot-device shown by 'printenv' does not change.), and saying 'boot' booted Linux from the stick, (2) if no USB stick was present, the boot-device remained, thus allowing to boot from hard disk. Then I made the fatal error, I ran 'nvstore', 'setenv use-nvramrc? true' and 'shut-down'. Now the machine won't boot anymore. The chime is there but the display remains black. The machine in question is an iBook G3 Dual USB 500 MHz. Risto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/p2r46e1c7761004272234h5f81a6dam87741910bf6a7...@mail.gmail.com
