Subject: Re: Can I run YDL headless?
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Sat Jan 05 2002 - 09:37:53 MST
I looked at quik but assumed this was for New World Macs only...
-- John
Andrew Leahy wrote:
>John Nelson wrote:
>
>>All,
>>
>>Aside from running MOL, I don't really need a monitor, keyboard or mouse
>>on this 8500 running YDL. I plan to use it as a compute server. But...
>>will YDL actually boot on an 8500 without these ADB devices? I suspect,
>>the answer is "no" because on Old World Macs you need to boot into Mac OS
>>first and then boot Linux...
>>
>>Unless there's a way to directly boot into YDL on an Old World Mac without
>>even touching Mac OS. Any chance this can be done?
>>
>>-- John
>>
>
>You could use quik (probably installed by default) and try playing around
>with open firmware variables. Quik allows you to bypass MacOS completely,
>but I haven't gotten it to work on my 7200 with YDL. (Is anybody still
>using it? I had some success with Linuxppc.) Try "man quik" and "man
>quik.conf" for more information. You can set the open firmware variables
>(with /sbin/nvsetenv) so that the input-device and output-device are on the
>serial port. Again, I haven't gotten this to work on my 7200, but I don't
>know why it shouldn't.
>
>Andrew Leahy
>
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