On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> I tried setting auto-boot? false (also auto-voot? ;-) and the screen 
> size variables, and maybe one or two other things.  Then I typed 
> mac-boot.  It went into some kind of loop where it would try two or 
> three different OF device paths and fail, try again, etc.

What other things did you change? I ran my Blue G3 at NAS with auto-boot
false for ever, and it was fine.

> I hit the reset button on the front and held cmd-opt-o-f and looked 
> at the environment again.  *Everything* was reset, even though I 
> never actually booted MacOS.  A reset-all booted MacOS just fine as 
> usual.  (Not like Saturday night on my home 8500).
> 
> If I had properly booted MacOS would it *really* have left things as 
> I set them?  This isn't a good test, but I still find that a bit hard 
> to believe.

Hmmmm... Would depend on what else was changed. It might have realized it
was loosing, and tried to compensate.

Take care,

Bill