Subject: Re: Install OF problems on 5500
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: BT OpenWorld <simon.troup@btinternet.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/05/2001 20:14:12
> :)I then hit "write" and reboot, or "write & reboot", and every time the
> :)system boots straight back into MacOS, whereas according to the literature
> :)is sounds like it ought to be booting into OF. This is the first place that
> :)experience deviates from the install manual.
>
> Did you also uncheck the 'auto-boot?' checkbox? This is what tells the
> system to stop at the OF prompt. Otherwise, it will start to boot your
> default OS (i.e. MacOS).
Ah yes, that'll be the oversight, hadn't unchecked auto-boot, I suggest the
manual should say "uncheck auto-boot" rather than "click on auto-boot", I
know I did it wrong now but presumed "click on" meant "check".
> Maybe, before you try a serial console, you should use BootVars to set:
> input-device: ttyb
> output-device: ttyb
> so that your printer serial port is what's used for Open Firmware console.
Thanks, I get straight to the OF prompt with ttyb !
Problem now is that I seem to get no response to the O >boot commands.
Is a successful boot pretty much instantaneous, I mean, do acknowledgements
start flying through the terminal straight away?
I've burned a couple CD's of the ISO using toast titanium 5.02, one as a
disc image (creates a hybrid ISO 9660) and another as ISO 9660 with pretty
much everything turned off (by dragging the contents of the disc image to a
folder and burning the contents of that folder to the top level of a new
disc).
Now, I know that my CD scsi ID is 3 (says scsi bus0 ID=3 in apple system
profiler), but when I do any of the following ...
O > dir scsi/sd@3:0,\
O > dir scsi-int/sd@3:0,\
... the system either hangs (no new line created in terminal, just blinks
after I hit return on same line) or once I got ...
0 > dir scsi/sd@3:0,\ RESETing SCSI bus
Similar story with O >boot commands ... just sits there doing nothing, which
suggests to me I'm either not addressing the CD properly (I don't get any CD
noises suggesting it's searching for the CD) or my CD burns are incorrect.
When I saw the OF prompt I thought I'd be home and dry, only to get stuck
here.
No idea if it's helpful, but here's my O > printenv report so far ...
little-endian? false false
real-mode? false false
auto-boot? false true
diag-switch? false false
fcode-debug? false false
oem-banner? false false
oem-logo? false false
use-nvramrc? false false
real-base F00000 -1
real-size 100000 100000
virt-base -1 -1
virt-size 100000 100000
load-base 600000 4000
pci-probe-list -1 -1
screen-#columns 64 64
screen-#rows 28 28
selftest-#megs 0 0
boot-device /AAPL,ROM /AAPL,ROM
boot-file
diag-device fd:diags fd:diags
diag-file
input-device ttyb ttya
output-device ttyb ttya
oem-banner
oem-logo
nvramrc
boot-command boot boot
ok
0 >
Any further help and advice humbly accepted and seriously appreciated :)
Regards
Simon Troup