[NTLUG:Discuss] Apple Openfirmware

[Garen Evans II]

I've tried the 'c' trick, no dice. If I do
cmd-option-O-F it will boot to the OF prompt. Then I
issue 'printenv' to see what the currently set
environment variables are. I see from this that
'boot-device' is set to '/AAPL,ROM'.

This particular G3 has 2-9GB scsi drives, one of which
has MacOS 9.0.4 and always wants to boot. It also has
a 40GB ide hdd and an ide cdrom drive.

When I issue the 'devalias' command at the OF prompt I
see entries for scsi, scsi-int, ide0, ide, ata-int,
ide1. From looking aroung in the MacOS I know that the
40GB drive is the master and the cdrom is the slave on
the ide cable.

I have tried to set the 'boot-device' parameter for
ide1, then ide, and then ata-int, and I still cannot
get this machine to boot from cd.

Is there an OF command to retrieve a current list of
bootable devices. Also, I downloaded an Ubuntu server
ppc iso on an x86 MS 2003 box and burned it with nero.
None of my x86 boxes will read the cd, but I can see
it if I boot into MacOS.

Not sure where to head next.

Garen L. Evans, II
garen_evans2 at yahoo.com

--- David Stanaway <david at stanaway.net> wrote:

> Have you tried holding 'c' down while booting? I
> think that overrides
> the openfirmware boot sequence to boot from the CD.
> 
> Holing the option key down while booting brings up a
> menu with a list of
>  bootable volumes.
> 
> Now the syntax at the openfirmware prompt is another
> story...
> 
> Garen Evans II wrote:
> > Is ther a resident expert on configuring apple
> open
> > firmware is residence? I own a MacIntosh Server G3
> and
> > am having a difficult time reconfiguring the OF to
> > boot from CD.
> > 
> > Any and all help appreciated.
> > 
> > (PS - the OF version is 2.40)
> > 
> > Garen L. Evans, II
> > garen_evans2 at yahoo.com
> > 
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