On Monday, February 28, 2005, at 05:18 PM, Daniel Eggert wrote:
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>
> Now you lost me again. What will
>     ." boot1" cr
> do? Is that file to circumvent the parsing done by setenv?
>

No, it will just print boot1 to screen and a carriage return, it's 
debugging crap.

> Yes: It's a mini, and the output defaults to screen, and is set to 
> default, i.e. screen. If I cmd-opt-o-f the screen comes up fine, but 
> if I just boot with auto-boot? set to true the screen never comes up. 
> There's no sync signal on the VGA.
>
Ok, I just discovered I have maybe the same problem.  I actually hadn't 
setup autoboot, as I got into making a menu -- so basically forget 
everything I had to say ;-].

Following the procedure in the install notes, I get a grey-screen, for 
half a sec,
then a red-orange screen for half  a sec, then a white screen, and 
seems to hang.
On a imac g3 dv se slot loading, ofversion3, that's a crt, but on my 
ibook g3, (lcd) I just get black screen, sound familiar?  OF must not 
intialize video, unless goes into prompt.
But you're very close, I got my g3 to autoboot, like this:
setenv boot-command boot hd:,\bootbsd.of
---bootbsd.of----------
\ netbsd open-firmware boot command
." hello1" cr
"screen" output
." hello2" cr
boot hd:,\ofwboot.xcf hd:9,/netbsd
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And I can autoboot my g3.    HMM..  actually just noticed typo  should 
be " screen" ...but
it is what worked... I'll post again after I try on my ibook.  maybe ." 
does the init
for screen...