Subject: Re: Booting from CD on Performa 6400
To: None <briggs@wasabisystems.com>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/02/2002 21:43:21
In article <20021002042740.GH6725@canolog.ninthwonder.com>
briggs@wasabisystems.com wrote:
> 0 > setenv boot-device /AAPL,ROM
> 0 > boot ata/ATA-Disk@0:0
>
> failed with:
> OF_open bootpath=/AAPL,ROM
> read stage 2 blocks: 01234567. done!
> starting stage 2...
> DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00600 at %SRR0: 00600000 %SRR1: 00003070
>
> while
> 0 > setenv boot-device ata/ATA-Disk@0:0
> 0 > boot
>
> worked. I don't think the bootpath should have been /AAPL,ROM in this
> case. The command line should override the boot-device, I think.
Some old OF is really buggy and it does not set bootpath properly.
So ofwboot/boot.c uses boot-device instead if bootpath is invalid.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp