Subject: Re: Anyone found a workaround for "g4 boots, but doesn't
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Donald Lee <MacPPC1@caution.icompute.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/21/2005 13:47:07
At 3:53 PM +0000 5/21/05, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
>| As part of my aggravating saga of getting this g4/466 up to a point
>| where I can use it for testing, I ran across an issue where I can get
>| everything booting OK manually, but when I set auto-boot? to true, the
>| machine hangs at a white screen.
>
> I think last time this came up (I believe it was Bill Studenmund)
>the solution was to use
>
> "screen " output boot ofwboot.xcf ....
>
> in your boot-command.
>
> mjl
Careful with those spaces. It needs to be *before*, not after:
" screen" output boot ofwboot.xcf ....
It makes a difference. ;->
-dgl-