Subject: Re: Problem: OF reset
To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@netbsd-pt.org>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/14/2005 09:30:38
Hello,

> >> My OF can't boot from CD (the "c" key doesn't work and I never found
> >> out what was the SCSI ID of the CDROM).
> >
> > Use Delete-Option-Control-Shift. This forces OF to look for bootable
> > devices other than the internal hard drive. If your CD is stock, it's
> > probably at ID 3.
> 
> I already tried this. Problem is, when I was able to access OF,
> I was never able to boot from CD with the boot scsi-int/sd@?[:?] command.
> Probably this is not a stock cdrom reader.
Hmm, I have a 24x Pioneer drive in my S900, MacOS doesn't like it but everything else ( including OF ) works just fine. ( it came with a 12x Matsushita drive )

> >> 2.3.1 was the version I tried when I had Mac OS 8.6 installed and it
> >> didn't worked, only BootVars did.
> >
> > What problems did you have?
> 
> I've replied in other email.

System Disk is known to refuse working on any non-Apple machine.

have fun
Michael