Subject: Re: auto-boot? false and manual "boot" vs. auto-boot? true?
To: Martin J. Laubach <mjl@netbsd.org>
From: Charlie Allom <charlie@eatyourpets.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/11/2002 12:25:33
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 05:06:01PM +0000, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
> | >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
> 
>   Same here on a G4/400. I never managed to get it to autoboot
> into NetBSD (gray screen with no visible progress), if instead I
> drop into OF and type "boot", it works fine.

Ditto on a Wallstreet 250 Mhz. I _do_ use it as a server though .. I
have had this thread here before - with no resolution. No amount of
NVRAM patching can fix it.

  C.
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