Re: ybin, nvsetenv and MacOS X

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:26:17PM -0400, johnathan spectre wrote:

After an install of ybin (I've reinstalled it a few times) selecting "x"
will result in some disk activity the first time I press "x". Then return me
to ybin's boot menu.

this means that the command to boot MacOSX failed, when something in
my menu fails OpenFirmware simply reloads it silently.  (not terribly
intuitive i know, im not sure what i can really do about it..)

Pressing "x" every time after boots me into my MacOS 9 partition as if I
pressed "m" or let the system boot to default (it doesn't cycle after that
first time).

eventually i think mac-boot (the default OF boot command) will tire of
reloading my script and just look for some other partition to boot.
thats probably whats happening here.

I'm wondering if ybin hasn't been updated to MacOS X Beta yet or is
something wrong? OS X is installed on partition 16 on my system and boots
fine if I use Apple's boot disk app to set it as the boot volume.

well since i don't have access to OSX i am just guessing as to how to
boot it.  i am making the assumption that it boots the same way as OS9
(which from what people have told me is true)  i execute the command:
boot XX:Y,\\:tbxi where XX is the OpenFirmware path to whatever device
you specified, and Y is the partition you specify.  ie: hd:16,\\:tbxi 

this SHOULD work assuming apple has a blessed directory on the
partition you specify and a file with type tbxi located there.  this
is what is done in HFS+ setups as i understand and what you have on
the OSX bootstrap partition for UFS setups.  keep in mind that for a
UFS setup you need to specify the OSX bootstrap partiiton and not the
OSX root partition.  for HFS+ setups i asume the OSX root partition is
correct. 

Additionally, I tried "boot hd:16,\\:tbxi" which is what I thought the boot
menu was trying to do. I get an error message and nothing happens (I might
be wrong though, I'm still learning what these scripts do).

this is the command my menu is executing yes.  can you tell me more
about your OSX install? is it HFS+ or UFS?  also a mac-fdisk -l
/dev/hda would be helpful.  

another possiblity is you booted OS9 and it mounted your OSX partition
and deblessed it since its not real MacOS....  (this is worse then
win95's installer....)

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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/