You're giving it an OFW v3.x command syntax which is confusing it and
causing it to jump to the default boot device which is /AAPL,ROM. There
also is no cd devalias on this machine.

Be sure you have the nvram patches loaded from SystemDisk, and then:

boot ide1/@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF;1 	<-- cdrom
boot ide0/@0:0			<-- internal HD

If you don't have an ide1 or ide0 devalias then you don't have the nvram
patches loaded which are required.


 On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Timo Schoeler wrote:

> hi,
>
> > Hello,
> >
> >> trying to boot from the cdrom -- as the guides tell -- via 'boot cd:0
> >> blah' or 'boot cd:0,\blabla' doesn't work either.
> >
> > Check if the 'cd' devalias points at The Right Thing. Try to boot using
> > the complete device path ( boot <devicepath>,\ofwboot.xcf
> > hd:<number>/<kernel name> )
>
> i've tried this, too. the firmware doesn't throw an error, but half a second
> later it 'resets' the lcd, the gray Mac OS 9 background appears, and a few
> seconds later it boots MOS9. i'm sure the files are where they're supposed
> to be and that i point OF into the right direction.
>
> >
> >> as this thing is in standard config i just hope somebody can give me a
> >> hint.
> >
> > I /think/ Chris Tribo runs NetBSD on such a machine ( or at least on
> > something fairly similar )
>
> yip, he was so kind to mail me his X config (which runs on a wallstreet).
>
> >
> >> i'm willing to use this machine as my primary email and web
> >> machine and would be very happy to use it's serial port for some
> >> cisco/nortel/xyz stuff. but i don't want to spend days on figuring out
> >> how to boot it ;)
> >
> > I don't need to set real-base and load-base on any of my macppc boxes
> > for quite some time now ( one has OF 1.0.5, the other 3.something ) - in
> > fact setting them seemed to cause trouble with 1.0.5
>
> tried both with and without. no success :/
>
> cheers,
>
> timo
>
>
> !DSPAM:42bf0a5f221473768218637!
>

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