Subject: Re: Booting from CD on Performa 6400
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/02/2002 00:27:40
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:21:44AM -0400, Allen Briggs wrote:
> Also, for what it's worth, once I found a good floppy (without any
> bad sectors!), I was able to install successfully on the Performa,
> using the default CD-ROM settings for the CD-R.

I should also note that to boot from the disk, I did have to set the
boot-device explicitly.  I think this is a bug in the boot blocks.

I.e.,
0 > setenv boot-device /AAPL,ROM
0 > boot ata/ATA-Disk@0:0

failed with:
OF_open bootpath=/AAPL,ROM
read stage 2 blocks: 01234567. done!
starting stage 2...
DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00600 at   %SRR0: 00600000  %SRR1: 00003070

while
0 > setenv boot-device ata/ATA-Disk@0:0
0 > boot 

worked.  I don't think the bootpath should have been /AAPL,ROM in this
case.  The command line should override the boot-device, I think.

-allen

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