At 6:17 PM -0800 11/6/00, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
> > I tried setting auto-boot? false (also auto-voot? ;-) and the screen
> > size variables, and maybe one or two other things.  Then I typed
> > mac-boot.  It went into some kind of loop where it would try two or
> > three different OF device paths and fail, try again, etc.
>
>What other things did you change? I ran my Blue G3 at NAS with auto-boot
>false for ever, and it was fine.

Didn't change boot device.  Put a blank line in nvramrc (was empty to 
begin with).  I think that was it.

> > I hit the reset button on the front and held cmd-opt-o-f and looked
> > at the environment again.  *Everything* was reset, even though I
> > never actually booted MacOS.  A reset-all booted MacOS just fine as
> > usual.  (Not like Saturday night on my home 8500).
> >
> > If I had properly booted MacOS would it *really* have left things as
> > I set them?  This isn't a good test, but I still find that a bit hard
> > to believe.
>
>Hmmmm... Would depend on what else was changed. It might have realized it
>was loosing, and tried to compensate.

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