On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:48:53AM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote: > ok, now i really screwed up ... > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > command-option-O-F to boot into OF. > > i never been able to boot into OF ... i think you have, its just sent all its output out the serial port. > so i thought, i will try setting auto-boot off with the bootvariables macos > utility like you said ... but when i rebooted, ... nothing happend, nothing, > no screen output nothing, it doesnt even boot from the hfs floppy anymore > ... you just sucessfully booted into OpenFirmware, but you neglected to change the input-device and output-device variables so all the OF output is going out the serial port. its also listening for commands on the serial port. > > sigh, ... is there anything i can do ? or is this box lost ? shutdown, boot up while holding down `command option p r' which will reset the nvram back to its default settings which boot only MacOS. or connect a serial terminal and you will find an OpenFirmware prompt. when you boot macos again change the input-device varable to kbd and the output-device variable to screen. then change auto-boot? to false and try again, this time you should get a OF prompt on the console, unless this box doesn't support the monitor. (i think someone already said it does). > i never found a .coff kernel either on the cdrom. i don't think there is one on the CD, there is one in the debian kernel-image-* package. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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