G3 boot

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

There is no hd0 or hd1. If your boot device is an IDE drive jumpered as
master, use hd:X,\\:tbxi where X is the bootstrap partition number (note the
second colon). Once you boot successfully, you can use the nvsetenv command
from Linux instead of OF's setenv.
-- 
"No gnu's is good gnu's."   --Gary Gnu, "The Great Space Coaster"


> From: "R. de Ruijter" <r.de.ruijter@xs4all.nl>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 23:05:00 +0000 (UTC)
> Subject: G3 boot
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've managed to install YDL on my mac Blue&white G3. There are 3 partitions
> including a bootstrap (1 mb) as the installer requested. When rebooting my
> mac doesn't boot to Yellow Dog but boot's to the ?/face icon.
> 
> To avoid this I have altered the boot device to hd1:1,\\tbxi etc (tried
> hd0:0, hd1:0 and so on). Because OF doesn't recognize my keyboard I have to
> type " (5C)' to get the \ (backslash). this does not work in combination
> with the setenv command so I used pci/.... This doesn't seem to work.
> 
> I know that ydl is fully installed, My question is what do I have to alter
> to boot directly into YDL?? (No Mac OS instaled).
> 
> Thanks,
> Kris