Hello guys,
I'm one of those not lucky people who have Apple Mac G3 266 with 2.0f OF.
as I dont' have anything but  netbsd installed on this box I can think of
nothing but adding some stuff to OF nvram manually.
the problem is that I dont' know what to add.
if someone knows how to patch this REALLY buggy version of OF - HELP ME!!
or give URLs, anything that can be useful.

thanks in advance.. any help is REALLY appreciated.


Regards,

Igor N. Green

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

-->On Thu, Dec 2, 1999, Chris Tribo <t1345@apache.dtcc.edu> wrote:
-->
-->>	Sorry, yes I meant BootX 1.1.3. My suspicion is that OF does not
-->>enable the ATA-drives as you said. My HD does not spin up in OF on a cold
-->>boot, and the HD is shut down on reboot. I imagine that this is left for
-->>the AAPLROM to deal with. I do seem to recall that FWB HD ToolKit's IDE
-->>drivers did not shut down the HD on reboot.
-->
-->Putting the HD to sleep and shutting down the IDE controller (usually via
-->the HW reset pin controlled by the feature control register of mac-io)
-->are two different things. Ultimately, you booter or IDE driver in the
-->kernel should take care of re-enabling them. Of course, if you need the
-->IDE ON to load the booter, then you need the OF patches.
-->
-->>Perhaps, setting
-->>up a small enough MacOS partition to boot macos, and use an AppleScript to
-->>reboot would leave the ATA/ATAPI busses and drives enabled? I don't have a
-->>new enough version to work with OS9, maybe someone else could try it. It
-->>sort of defeats the purpose I agree, and an xcoff kernel should load with
-->>less hassle on a smaller partition.
-->
-->Eventually. It would be easier to just make a simple INIT that reboots.
-->An AppleScript would have to wait for the entire MacOS boot process.
-->
-->>	Since Multibooter dissapeared I was thinking I would have to
-->>install a SCSI drive. You mentioned the MacOSX system disk, does it
-->>contain the OF patchs that Multibooter installed? 
-->
-->"System Disk" is the new name for Multibooter. It comes with MacOS X but
-->also with Darwin (Apple OpenSource'd version of the MacOS X kernel and
-->BSD tools) and is available somewhere on their site.
-->
-->>	The other option for Beige G3'ers is to swap out the ROM SIMM, but
-->>that gets expensive and hard to come by. I've heard that updating to OF
-->>2.2+ fixes the IDE troubles. 
-->
-->I didn't know this was possible at all. Where can one get a 2.2+ OF
-->version ? In another machine ? I was under the impression that all 2.x
-->versions of OF released by Apple had this problem, I may be wrong.
-->
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