ah... I thought that might be the case. Obviously, without a CD drive, 
it's going to be tricky.
Has anyone had any experience typing the patches in manually? (assuming 
that's possible, which I assume it is with nvedit?)


On 15 May 2005, at 08:20, Chris Tribo wrote:

>
> It's not going to boot without the SystemDisk/StartupDisk nvram 
> patches.
> If the patches are loaded and the other OFW settings are correct, it
> should just be setting boot-device to ide0/@0:0, "reset-all" and then
> "boot"
>
> ide0 is the HD, it's a patched alias to the ata channel which won't 
> show
> up without the nvram patches loaded.
>
> 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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