Re: Testers on PowerMac needed - overwriting the boot-device in NVRAM

[Cameron MacPherson <cameron.macpherson@gmail.com>]

cam@propaganda:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0

cpu             : PPC970, altivec supported

clock           : 1600.000000MHz

revision        : 2.2 (pvr 0039 0202)

timebase        : 33333333

platform        : PowerMac

model           : PowerMac7,2

machine         : PowerMac7,2

motherboard     : PowerMac7,2 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh

detected as     : 336 (PowerMac G5)

pmac flags      : 00000000

L2 cache        : 512K unified

pmac-generation : NewWorld

correct it rebooted normally looking at the display i rebooted it remotely its been a long night

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 1:42 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Hello Cameron!

On 3/25/22 09:40, Cameron MacPherson wrote:
> nvram --print-config='boot-device /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/@0:2,\\:txbi'
> nvram --update-config boot-device=""
> nvram --print-config=boot-device
> reboot
>
> result is another login prompt

On which machine exactly?

And by "another login prompt" you mean the machine booted normally?

Thanks,
Adrian

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