What machine/OF version is this?

At 12:09 AM -0700 5/10/02, Jay Krell wrote:
>Cool, I managed to
>     use MacOS 9.x Drive Setup to setup HFS+, A/UX root, and A/UX swap
>partitions (oddly the HFS+ partition has only a minimal install of MacOS
>9.1, should be around 30meg but is sort of reported as 400 meg out of
>500meg), copied ofwboot.xcf to the hfs+ partition
>     newfs, mount, make fstab, "reinstall" instead of install
>     setenv boot-command boot
>     setenv boot-file..I forgot, but it amounts to hd:9,ofwboot.xcf hd:10
>
>(wow this is much harder than installing on an x86 on an empty drive...)
>
>(It was important that I use 1.5.2 instead of 1.5, for the keyboard to work
>(I reported problems here recently, I may have said they were with 1.5.2 but
>I was wrong, it was 1.5)).
>
>but then..
>
>setenv auto-boot? true
>reset-all
>
>it just hangs with a gray screen.
>
>setenv auto-boot? false
>reset-all
>manually type just "boot"
>it boots up fine to single usermode, I edited rc.conf, ran startx, X
>started, good, success
>
>but why doesn't auto-boot? true work? Is this the drive spinup problem? I
>tried the two workarounds but couldn't get either to work. nvedit cleared
>the line after each line was entered, ok, but when I tried nvrun it said
>wboot was not a known word. It was always all lowercase wboot even though I
>kept typing it in mixed case wBoot. And the one line delay thing didn't
>work, though I did it with setenv boot-command instead of as it appears to
>be described in the docs.
>
>Any ideas? I can live with this for now.
>
>  - Jay


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