Hi,

Have you patched the firmware via System Disk? If not, try that first.  
Incidentally, I've found that booting the MacOS X installation disc also
patches the firmware on my beige g3 (although its a moot point if you
don't have a cd drive).  If you can't run System Disk, perhaps someone
with the same type of machine can post the openfirmware patch so you can 
type it in.

Actually, it might actually be a good idea to post all the openfirmware 
patches on-line so that people can just type in their patches without 
relying on System Disk. I would be willing to set up a page dedicated to 
this if anyone else is interested. 

-John

On Sat, 14 May 2005, Richard Roberts wrote:

> I wonder if anyone could help with a booting problem?
> 
> I've got a powerbook g3 (I believe it's a wallstreet, but without the 
> ID marks, I can't be entirely certain) running open firmware 2.0.2.
> I have no cd drive, but I've managed to run the installer via a 
> net-install. All seemed well, but I'm damned if I can get it to boot 
> from the hard drive!
> My problem is stemming from the fact that I can't work out what the 
> boot command should be, so if anyone has a cheat sheet, I'd be most 
> grateful. I've tried everything I can find on thar intraweb, but to no 
> avail. (if it's any help, there's no 'ide' alias, just ata0 (or 
> ata-int) through 4, and scsi & scsi-int)
> 
> TIA,
> Rich
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