Re: OF booting of G3-upgraded 7600?

[Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>]

Hi all,

On   2 Aug, this message from Jeffrey Karl Lassahn echoed through cyberspace:
> One simple thing that bit me is that the machine can try to boot before
> the hard drive hs spun up.  This gives the default catch you're seeing,
> and it depends on CPU speed.
> 
> I fixed it with an OpenFirmware change that I haven't bothered to fully
> understand, but which seems to work great.  That is:
> set 
> boot-command
> to
> begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again

I already have this in my bootvars. I will check again, but at first
glance, I don't think this will help.

Thanks anyway ;-)

Michel

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