So is it normal for the patches to disappear upon reset?

On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 04:33 -0800, Anthony de Almeida Lopes wrote:
> Thanks again for responding. I also just discovered that when I reboot
> (in any form, whether it be reset-all, shutdown or bye from OF or just
> hard reboot/reset) i loost all of the open firmware settings. I'm not
> sure why this is, but I think it may have to do with the battery.
> Maybe... 
> 
> Okay, I'll try -current. 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 07:05 -0500, Tim Kelly wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:18:53 -0800
> > Anthony de Almeida Lopes <guerrilla_thought@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > So, i can boot to fd2 (floppy drive in the left bay), by using boot
> > > fd2:,\OFWBOOT.XCF. And that worked just fine to install everything;
> > > however, I can't boot to what I installed. I double checked and made
> > > sure that file system wd0a is mountable and everything seems to be
> > > there. I copied everything from /usr/mdec/ to it's /. 
> > 
> > If you've got an install in place, backtrace from wd0 to determine the
> > path to devices that match the path in Open Firmware. Is this a
> > 2.0 install? Patches to fix problems with the bootpath not being
> > properly identified on Powerbooks with two mac-io devices (yours is
> > one such PB) did not make it into 2.0 so your task is made more
> > difficult. In general, NetBSD/macppc 2.0 is bug prone and you may want
> > to reconsider and install -current instead, which fixes many of the
> > bugs.
> > 
> > tim
> >