Boot Rom Version and os-chooser

Boot Rom Version and os-chooser

[Jimi X]

I updated with Apples PowerBook Firmware Update 2.7 on my pismo as
apple suggested to fix some firewire kinks I had.

Apple System Profiler says:
  ROM revision:			$t7D.45F6
  Boot ROM verion:		$0003.27f2
  Mac OS ROM file version:	3.8


Now my os-chooser forth script does not work.
I tried adding the obvious "PowerBook3,2" to the <COMPATIBLE>

Should I have tried upping the major number?

-Jimi X

BTW: I can boot linux fine (no surprise), I just have to go into OF to
     boot OS9 (pain pain pain).


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Re: Boot Rom Version and os-chooser

[Ethan Benson]

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On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:54:39PM -0400, Jimi X wrote:
> 
> I updated with Apples PowerBook Firmware Update 2.7 on my pismo as
> apple suggested to fix some firewire kinks I had.
> 
> Apple System Profiler says:
>   ROM revision:			$t7D.45F6
>   Boot ROM verion:		$0003.27f2
>   Mac OS ROM file version:	3.8

ok..

> 
> Now my os-chooser forth script does not work.
> I tried adding the obvious "PowerBook3,2" to the <COMPATIBLE>
> 
> Should I have tried upping the major number?

i highly doubt apple would have changed your machine name with a
firmware upgrade, you can find out what you machine calls itself by
checking /proc/device-tree/compatible, mine looks like so:

PowerMac1,1MacRISCPower Macintosh

only PowerMac1,1 is relevant.  note that my OpenFirmware version is
3.1.1 or something close to that.  the number in the PowerMac name is
not related to the actual firmware revision AFAIK.  

what forth script are you using?

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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Re: Boot Rom Version and os-chooser

[Jimi X]

>>>>> "BH" == Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net> writes:
>>>>> "EB" == Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:

thanks to Ben and Ethan, but this was a TOTAL brain FART on my end.

I was booting the toolbox NOT the os-chooser.

I had to set the startup disk so the firmware upgrade could happen
(tho I may not have had to do this) and when I used OS9 to make my
boot partition I forgot that it set the boot file as tbxi.

Sorry for the trouble, I guess when things just work for a long time,
you forget the details that got you there in the first place.

-Jimi X

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