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From: BenH <bh40@calva.net>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: write into OF tree like nvsetenv
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 17:31:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000108173128.026187@192.168.1.10> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000108171526.B8126@suse.de>


On Sat, Jan 8, 2000, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> wrote:

>it is possible to write into the OF settings to adjust the boot
>variables? nvsetenv do not work anymore on newer machines.
>
>Is there any way to change variables like "boot-device"?
>The idea is to automate the generation of yaboot.conf and booting via
>the os-chooser script.

nvsetenv needs fixing. There's a tool that comes with poof that should
work until I fix nvsetenv. Also, mvram is not accessible at all yet on
UMA machines (I'm working on that but it will only work when booting from
OF, not with BootX).


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  reply	other threads:[~2000-01-08 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-08 16:15 write into OF tree like nvsetenv Olaf Hering
2000-01-08 16:31 ` BenH [this message]
     [not found] ` <v04220818b49df84590b1@[192.168.0.1]>
     [not found]   ` <38785B2C.7807E8FD@wanadoo.fr>
2000-01-09 13:29     ` Olaf Hering
2000-01-10 14:58       ` Ethan Benson
2000-01-11  8:08         ` Olaf Hering
2000-01-11  8:14           ` Ethan Benson

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