On 16-Jul-2003 Ethan Benson wrote:

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I bought a dual G4-MDD and I installed my SCSI disk I used on
my G3. Is there an osx command to get the openfirmware path of
the yaboot partition on that disc ?  I tried to boot
/pci@f2000000/ADPT,29160@12/@4:9,ofboot.b but it doesn't work.
Macosx mounts the HFS partitions on the old disc, but it doesn't
show any of them on the startup disk utility (does it need to be
blessed again ?).

the yaboot bootstrap partition should be type Apple_Bootstrap and thus
never mounted by any macos, if this is the case there is no need to
rebless it since macos never tampered with it.

IIRC it's Apple_Bootstrap, but first of all I must know the correct
ofpath... I also tried to boot the YDL2.3 cd without success :(

just walk the device tree in OF.

Of course I did, but I was unsure because dev / ls shows a leaf "/disk".
Yesterday night I managed to get from osx the of path, and it's about
the same I wrote above. I mounted the boot partition in /xyz, then I
wrote in a root shell:

bless -folder9 /xyz -verbose -setOF

*obviously* it didn't work, but It printed the of path on the screen,
which I hope it's the right one. Any attempt to boot from of results in
a "can't OPEN: pci/......". Damn! Does it boot from anything different
than the osx dvd and its ide disc ??



Bye.


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