Re: won't boot if I don't enter open-firmware

[netbsd%pckswarms.ch@localhost]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:37:14PM -0400, Michael wrote:
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> Hello,
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> On Aug 10, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
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> >Hi,
> >
> >Ok, this is odd.
> >
> >I have a PowerMac G4/400 AGP, and a PowerBook G4/667 (TiBook) and  
> >both of them run NetBSD fine.
> >
> >What they don't do fine is boot from powerup without a stop in  
> >openfirmware.
> >
> >If set auto-boot? to false, then when I drop into open-firmware type  
> >'boot' everything is fine.
> >But with auto-boot? to true they just make it to a gray screen and  
> >stop.  No text.
> >
> >I've tried the two different delayed boot commands in the install  
> >notes and both of
> >them produce a black screen and nothing.
> 
> What matters is to trick OF into initializing the graphics hardware,  
> there have been several scripts posted here, no clue which ones ou're  
> referring to.

The ones I tried were the ones from the 5.0.1 install notes:

0 > setenv boot-command catch 5000 ms boot
0 > setenv boot-command begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again

This wasn't the right guess :-)


cheers

bruce


> 
> >My Pismo, just to be perverse, boots just fine without a stop in  
> >OpenFirmware.
> 
> Yeah, its OF is old enough to be comparably sane.
> 
> have fun
> Michael
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