Re: G4 mdd help request

[Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>]

On 16-Jul-2003 Ethan Benson wrote:
>> >> I bought a dual G4-MDD and I installed my SCSI disk I used on
>> >> my G3. Is there an osx command to get the openfirmware path of
>> >> the yaboot partition on that disc ?  I tried to boot
>> >> /pci@f2000000/ADPT,29160@12/@4:9,ofboot.b but it doesn't work.
>> >> Macosx mounts the HFS partitions on the old disc, but it doesn't
>> >> show any of them on the startup disk utility (does it need to be
>> >> blessed again ?).
>> >
>> > the yaboot bootstrap partition should be type Apple_Bootstrap and thus
>> > never mounted by any macos, if this is the case there is no need to
>> > rebless it since macos never tampered with it.
>>
>> IIRC it's Apple_Bootstrap, but first of all I must know the correct
>> ofpath... I also tried to boot the YDL2.3 cd without success :(
>
> just walk the device tree in OF.

Of course I did, but I was unsure because dev / ls shows a leaf "/disk".
Yesterday night I managed to get from osx the of path, and it's about
the same I wrote above. I mounted the boot partition in /xyz, then I
wrote in a root shell:

bless -folder9 /xyz -verbose -setOF

*obviously* it didn't work, but It printed the of path on the screen,
which I hope it's the right one. Any attempt to boot from of results in
a "can't OPEN: pci/......". Damn! Does it boot from anything different
than the osx dvd and its ide disc ??



Bye.


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