Subject: Re: Booting a Powerbook G3 PDQ
To: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
From: Bruce O'Neel <edoneel@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/08/2006 12:49:13
Thanks very much! There were two or three problems.
- Duh. I tyed in idel not ide1. Oddly enough, ideL doesn't exist.
- The PRAM battery is dead and this seems to be causing oddities. In
particular a
setenv real-base f00000
at times returns
invalid number
or so.
- os/x is installed (and in German, a language I don't read well) but
the nvram command, odddly, doesn't seem to work.
Still, after playing around a bit this morning I was able to
boot the ISO from below and install started.
Thanks very much!
cheers
bruce
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:40:03AM -0500, Chris Tribo wrote:
> The gray screen with the circle is the MacOS 9 driver boot loader for OS
> X which means you dropped out of OpenFirmware, or you are really trying
> to boot an OS X CDROM but specifying the wrong partition number.
> Typically this happens if you really mess up the boot command, or you
> are trying to boot a non-existent devalias. In this case it probably
> means that the systemdisk/startup disk nvram patches that create ide0
> and ide1 are not loaded. All I had to do was
>
> setenv boot-device ide1/@0:0
> setenv auto-boot? false
> reset-all
> boot ide1/@0:0,OFWBOOT.XCF;1
>
> If you can't dir ide1/@0:0,\ then you're trying to boot a hybrid
> HFS/ISO9660 CD that the oldworld open firmware won't understand. You can
> grab my unofficial 2.1 ISO that does work here:
>
> http://user.dtcc.edu/~ctribo/macppc_unofficial.iso
>
>
>
> edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >As of yesterday I was the proud owner of an old Powerbook G3 PDQ.
> >This means that as of last night I was trying to install NetBSD
> >on said machine.
> >
> >The boot command on the model support page, boot ide1/@0:0,\OFWBOOT.XCF,
> >seems not to boot from the NetBSD 2.0 CD-Rom that I had sitting around.
> >It did switch to a solid gray screen with a circle with a cross line
> >on it (think European no parking sign in gray), but that was it.
> >
> >I tired a few other choices both from google searches and from
> >devalias open firmware commands, but, no luck.
> >
> >Is there something special to boot this or should I just netboot
> >and install that way.
> >
> >Thanks in advance!
> >
> >cheers
> >
> >bruce
> >
>
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