ybin, nvsetenv and MacOS X

ybin, nvsetenv and MacOS X

[johnathan spectre]

Thanks to Ethan Benson's help I have ybin up and running, updating nvsetenv
(available at
ftp://www.penguinppc.org/users/hollis/pmac-utils-2.0-2.src.rpm) let me use
nvsetenv with a PowerBook G3 (Firewire). ybin will now properly set OF's
boot variables so I don't have to.

I now have one problem left. The triple-booter works fine for MacOS 9 and
Linuxppc (via yaboot), but when I try to boot MacOS X I have the following
problem...

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.

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).

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.

Additionally, I tried "boot hd:16,\\:tbxi" which is what I thought the boot
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).

Any help? Suggestions? Thanks!


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Re: ybin, nvsetenv and MacOS X

[Ethan Benson]

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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:26:17PM -0400, johnathan spectre wrote:
> 
> 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 

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. 

> Additionally, I tried "boot hd:16,\\:tbxi" which is what I thought the boot
> 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.  

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....)

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

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