On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 01:22:00PM -0700, Chris Baker wrote: > > O.k. I've been playing around with this on my powerbook (which > thankfully has video under OF), and I think I'm almost there. A few > more questions, and I'll be all set. > > The boot-hfs-image floppy works great. I can type `bye' to boot to > ROM, and it boots the system on the floppy just fine. But the > installer doesn't have nvsetenv on it, so how do I boot to my > installed system (remember that I'm trying to get rid of the macos > partition here)? The boot-hfs-image floppy wants the root floppy; is > there some way to get it to mount the root file system off the > harddrive? I tried to get dbootstrap to make me a boot floppy, but it > says that it isn't supported. I also tried to boot a rescue floppy, > but OF said it couldn't load it. I know that it *used* to be possible > to OF boot a floppy, because when I first installed R4 (linuxppc) this > was the only way to reliably boot linux (this was pre-BootX). > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated :-) boot into OF and run: setenv boot-device foo/bar/@0:0 where foo/bar... is you REAL OF boot device. there is nothing in debian currently that can help with that setenv works exactly like nvsetenv. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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