Subject: Re: Booting, Debugging
To: Martin J. Laubach <mjl@emsi.priv.at>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/22/2001 16:53:13
At 12:50 AM 2/23/2001 +0000, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
>   Two more questions...
>
>   How do I get the G4 to automatically boot NetBSD? I tried
>setting the appropriate OF variables, and indeed it loads
>NetBSD when I then type "boot", however, on next boot the
>variable has reverted to its previous value.

Yep.  sucks, doesn't it?

>   How do I get into DDB? The "programmer's button" doesn't
>seem to have any effect. (I have here a hard hang after accessing
>a USB-scanner so I wanted DDB to find out where it hangs)

bad news, running DDB on mac with a USB keyboard doesn't seem
to work.
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