Subject: Re: start linux - openfirmware?
From: Riccardo Gusso (grick@mac.com)
Date: Sat Jan 05 2002 - 18:39:46 MST
on 5-01-2002 0:50, Juan Manuel Palacios at jmpalacios@mac.com wrote:
> Hello David. Is good that you're digging cautiously into Open
> Firmware because that's the least we could do to prevent something
> undesired. I'm so SOOO sorry about this, but both you and I have tiny
> typos in the commands. What you exactly need to type is:
>
> setenv boot-device hd:11,\\:tbxi
> mac-boot
>
> First I wrote double comas in the boot-device string, but there
> should ONLY be one. Then you reproduced that command with "hda" as the
> boot-device, but Open Firmware does not distinguish different ide drives
> on a chain as Linux does, with letter suffixes. It does it in a
> completely different manner (quite difficult indeed).
I have always been curious about this: could you explain me how it works?
Thanks in advance.
Rick
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