From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 21:22:55 -0800 From: Ethan Benson To: johnathan spectre Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: ybin, nvsetenv and MacOS X Message-ID: <20000925212255.O1928@plato.local.lan> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="acOuGx3oQeOcSZJu" In-Reply-To: ; from jspectre@lords.com on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:26:17PM -0400 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --acOuGx3oQeOcSZJu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:26:17PM -0400, johnathan spectre wrote: >=20 > After an install of ybin (I've reinstalled it a few times) selecting "x" > will result in some disk activity the first time I press "x". Then return= me > to ybin's boot menu. this means that the command to boot MacOSX failed, when something in my menu fails OpenFirmware simply reloads it silently. (not terribly intuitive i know, im not sure what i can really do about it..) > Pressing "x" every time after boots me into my MacOS 9 partition as if I > pressed "m" or let the system boot to default (it doesn't cycle after that > first time). eventually i think mac-boot (the default OF boot command) will tire of reloading my script and just look for some other partition to boot. thats probably whats happening here. > I'm wondering if ybin hasn't been updated to MacOS X Beta yet or is > something wrong? OS X is installed on partition 16 on my system and boots > fine if I use Apple's boot disk app to set it as the boot volume. well since i don't have access to OSX i am just guessing as to how to boot it. i am making the assumption that it boots the same way as OS9 (which from what people have told me is true) i execute the command: boot XX:Y,\\:tbxi where XX is the OpenFirmware path to whatever device you specified, and Y is the partition you specify. ie: hd:16,\\:tbxi=20 this SHOULD work assuming apple has a blessed directory on the partition you specify and a file with type tbxi located there. this is what is done in HFS+ setups as i understand and what you have on the OSX bootstrap partition for UFS setups. keep in mind that for a UFS setup you need to specify the OSX bootstrap partiiton and not the OSX root partition. for HFS+ setups i asume the OSX root partition is correct.=20 > Additionally, I tried "boot hd:16,\\:tbxi" which is what I thought the bo= ot > menu was trying to do. I get an error message and nothing happens (I might > be wrong though, I'm still learning what these scripts do). this is the command my menu is executing yes. can you tell me more about your OSX install? is it HFS+ or UFS? also a mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda would be helpful. =20 another possiblity is you booted OS9 and it mounted your OSX partition and deblessed it since its not real MacOS.... (this is worse then win95's installer....) --=20 Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ --acOuGx3oQeOcSZJu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature --acOuGx3oQeOcSZJu-- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/