I may have done, at some stage, but I couldn't say for certain!
My issue at this point is that I have no optical media to boot from, so 
I'm relying on net boot.
This works so I have an install *somewhere* on the system!
It's the *somewhere* that's bugging me, especially as DIR doesn't seem 
to be implemented...

Having had a successful-ish install, I'm going to assume that the 
openfirmware has been patched.

On 14 May 2005, at 18:51, John wrote:

> 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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