Subject: Re: I think I'm going to cry (netbooting)
To: =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCRiM4NhsoQiAgGyRCQD8bKEI=?= Makoto Fujiwara <makoto@ki.nu>
From: fission <fission@mb.sympatico.ca>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/28/1999 00:28:47
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, [iso-2022-jp] 藤原 Γ挟賛 Makoto Fujiwara
wrote: 

> fission> Okay.  I wired my Mac up to my PC running Linux and am trying
> to netboot
> 
> I think what type of Mac is important.
> Do you find enet string when you type devalias ?
> Mine does not have the string (StarMax 3000/200 for example).

No, mine does not have the string either. :(

> In my case, if I type >boot enet:0, it get MacOS, because
> it does not know what enet:0 is.

Yeah, that would make sense.

> ---------------------------------------
> Open Firmware, 2.0.2
> To continue booting the MacOS type:
> BYE<return>
> To continue booting from the default boot device type:
> BOOT<return>
>  ok
> 0 > devalias 
> pci1                /bandit@F2000000
> fd                  /bandit/ohare/swim3
> kbd                 /bandit/ohare/via-cuda/adb/keyboard
> mouse               /bandit/ohare/via-cuda/adb/mouse
> screen              /bandit/ATY,264VT
> ttya                /bandit/ohare/escc/ch-a
> ttyb                /bandit/ohare/escc/ch-b
> scsi                /bandit/ohare/mesh
> scsi-int            /bandit/ohare/mesh
> ata                 /bandit/ohare/ata
> ata-int             /bandit/ohare/ata
>  ok
> 0 > 
> ---------------------------------------
> I am afraid I am wrong, because alias defined and netbootable
> are not necessary related, but may be true ;-(

Most likely - if Open Firmware can't see that you have an ethernet card,
how can it make an alias for it?

> --
> (Makoto FujiwaraO

Thanks.

--fission