Re: Open Firmware boot syntax (was Re: Mac Newbie yaboot question)


Subject: Re: Open Firmware boot syntax (was Re: Mac Newbie yaboot question)
From: Jason S. Moore (jsmoore@brain.uccs.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 22:04:46 MDT


Hollis R Blanchard wrote:

>
> > so you need at least a small HFS partition that contains
> > your kernel, yaboot.tbxi, and yaboot.conf. then you tell the open firmware
> > to boot like:
> >
> > boot hd:x,\yaboot.tbxi
>
> This is slightly wrong.
>
> "hd:x,\\yaboot.tbxi" would run the program "yaboot.tbxi" from the
> (blessed) System Folder.

the \yaboot.tbxi works too, it gets it out of the root directory....



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