"Tangerine" iBook -- single USB, no firewire, 300 or 366MHz G3, handle
builtin to case
OF 3.x

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "Jay Krell" <jay.krell@cornell.edu>; <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: auto-boot? false and manual "boot" vs. auto-boot? true?


> 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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> Henry.B.Hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu