On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Patrick Welche wrote:

> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 19:00:17 +0000
> From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
> To: port-macppc@NetBSD.org
> Subject: firmware 2.0.3
>
> If I just switch this old Power Macintosh 5500/225 on, I get the "where's
> a bootable MacOS disk" query screen.
> If I press alt-apple-o-f this screen doesn't appear, and all is dark.
> I conclude that I am in openfirmware ?
> At this point, if I type "bye" I would expect to get back to the query
> screen, but nothing happens. "reset-all" doesn't help either.
>
> Does this mean that ttya or somesuch suddenly becomes the input-device?
> I thought the default was always kbd for input. (and something strange
> for output).
>
> What am I missing? (other than a serial cable ;-) )
>
I think just a serial cable and the right minicom or hyperterminal
settings.. :)  However I have one OF 1.X and one OF 3.X mac, so what do I
know.....

-p