Hi,

Yes I've tried typing in the the patches manually just to see if it would 
work on my mac. Sure enough, after a few corrected typos, it does! If your 
computer is connected to another via serial console, you can probably just 
cut and paste the patches.

-John

On Sun, 15 May 2005, Richard Roberts wrote:

> ah... I thought that might be the case. Obviously, without a CD drive, 
> it's going to be tricky.
> Has anyone had any experience typing the patches in manually? (assuming 
> that's possible, which I assume it is with nvedit?)
> 
> 
> On 15 May 2005, at 08:20, Chris Tribo wrote:
> 
> >
> > It's not going to boot without the SystemDisk/StartupDisk nvram 
> > patches.
> > If the patches are loaded and the other OFW settings are correct, it
> > should just be setting boot-device to ide0/@0:0, "reset-all" and then
> > "boot"
> >
> > ide0 is the HD, it's a patched alias to the ata channel which won't 
> > show
> > up without the nvram patches loaded.
> >
> > On Sat, 14 May 2005, Richard Roberts wrote:
> >
> >> I wonder if anyone could help with a booting problem?
> >>
> >> I've got a powerbook g3 (I believe it's a wallstreet, but without the
> >> ID marks, I can't be entirely certain) running open firmware 2.0.2.
> >> I have no cd drive, but I've managed to run the installer via a
> >> net-install. All seemed well, but I'm damned if I can get it to boot
> >> from the hard drive!
> >> My problem is stemming from the fact that I can't work out what the
> >> boot command should be, so if anyone has a cheat sheet, I'd be most
> >> grateful. I've tried everything I can find on thar intraweb, but to no
> >> avail. (if it's any help, there's no 'ide' alias, just ata0 (or
> >> ata-int) through 4, and scsi & scsi-int)
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >> Rich
> >>
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