Subject: Re: Some yaboot instructions
From: Kevin B. Hendricks (khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 06:44:12 MST
>Kevin B. Hendricks's bits of Thu, 16 Mar 2000 translated to:
>
>>(Again! replace hd:9 with the open firmware device name and MacOS partition
>>number)
>>
>>setenv boot-command boot
>>setenv boot-file hd:9,\\bootinfo.txt
>>setenv boot-device hd:9,\\bootinfo.txt
>
>Any idea if hd: is an IDE only type of thing? Running devalias from
>open firmware only shows disk devices that appear to be ata. And
>every hd:X I have tried just spits out "boot can't OPEN: hd:...".
>Any clues about how one would specify partitions on a SCSI drive?
>
>Jim
Grab the Device Name Registry I sent to the YDL general list and it will
show you the OF device tree from the MacOS side of things.
>From that you can check out the Devices:device-tree:aliases to find short
names for each of your devices.
If you can't find the device registry program, let me know and I will
resend it to you.
Kevin
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