Subject: Re: Booting a Powerbook G3 PDQ
To: Graham J Lee <leeg@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk>
From: Bruce O'Neel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/08/2006 16:29:50
Hi,

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:01:12PM +0000, Graham J Lee wrote:
> On 8 Mar 2006, at 13:43, Chris Tribo wrote:
> 
> >
> >On Mar 8, 2006, at 7:49 AM, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> >
> >>- os/x is installed (and in German, a language I don't read well) but
> >>the nvram command, odddly, doesn't seem to work.
> >
> >You have to do sudo nvram foo="bar" or be root which is disabled by  
> >default, to get it to change something. Otherwise it will silently  
> >fail *shrug*.
> 
> The Darwin version?  It fails noisily for me:
> 
> leeg@leegion:~>nvram boot-args='-v'
> nvram: Error (-1) setting variable - 'boot-args'

On 10.2.?? that's the same response for me as well.   I'll have to resintall OS/X 
if for no other reason to let me put down that German English dictionary..

cheers

bruce




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