Subject: setenv boot-device hd:XX,ofboot.b
From: perry phillips (pm_perry@pacbell.net)
Date: Sat Jul 21 2001 - 17:29:11 MDT
Well, this actually came up on this list once before and someone said
the comma worked for them so I had assumed it made no difference.
Indeed the command with comma did seem to do +something+, but it
never fixed the problem. (i.e., "setenv boot-device hd:XX,ofboot,b")
But I was pleasantly shocked to find that substituting a period for
the comma actually restored the bootloader on my G3 pismo!
Tim: thanks for this suggestion! I considered the period/comma
debate a dead issue and was spending more and more time obsessing on
ybin and Open Firmware details.
For anyone who wants to come back and say the comma also works, I
tried it it 4 times without success. If someone succeeded using the
comma, I have no explanation for wacky stuff like this.
I noticed in ybin it is "ofboot.b"--but hey, the comma worked for
someone and it was verbatim advice from Dan Burcaw @ TS.
Still hoping someone will give a crude overview of the order of boot
call procedures...
regards,
perry
>At 7:49 AM -0700 7/21/01, perry phillips wrote:
>
>> and so on. But that info has not helped me to figure out why the YDL
>>bootloader works with intermittent success. There is some parameter I
>>need to try to reset in order to revive my YDL bootloader, I just
>>haven't had time to test my theories about why
>>"setenv boot-device hd:XX,ofboot,b"
>>"reset-all"
>>didn't work for me...
>
>If that is exactly how you typed it, the problem is that it should
>be "ofboot.b" not "ofboot,b".
>
> Tim Seufert
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