Subject: Re: G4 support?
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Brian C. Grayson <bgrayson@marvin.ece.utexas.edu>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 07/13/1999 23:43:39
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 11:36:05AM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Brian C. Grayson wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 09:28:49AM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > > From there try boot fd:0   or maybe boot:1,%boot.
> > 
> >   On one of the beige ones, OF did a "CLAIM failed" for 'boot
> > fd:0', and when we did 'boot:1,%boot' it went into MacOS.  But
> > I think I may have put in an extra space in there by mistake --
> > 'boot :1,%boot' now that I think of it.
> 
> You'll need to say "boot <where>" - you need the space.
> 
> If it booted into macos, then what happened is that it got upset with what
> it found, and rolled over to the macos boot.

  Okay, so it appears it is not happy with the boot floppy.
Netbooting will require a serious investment of time at work,
which is currently scarce.  I'll try this when I have a chance.

  Brian