Just curious (additional)

[GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1]

Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

>Sounds like you need to not only reset the PRAM, but reset the nvram as
>well. Note that resetting the nvram also resets the PRAM. In OF, just type:
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>reset-nvram
>set-default
>reset-all
>
>On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 10:08:34 -0400, GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 wrote:
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>>GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 wrote:
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>>>GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 wrote:
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>>>>In an effort to understand what is happening when yaboot starts my 
>>>>computer, I have looked at the partition map of the HD (80 Gb Maxtor 
>>>>IDE)  and found the following.  hda1-8 are all less than 1 Mb and 
>>>>take up the first 2 sectors of the HD.  Next there is a 128 Mb free 
>>>>space. hda10 is an hfs+ partition and is 31011 Mb in size.  This is 
>>>>my OSX partition.  Then another 128 Mb free space.  hda12 is also an 
>>>>hfs+ partition and is 5997 Mb in size.  This is my OS9 partition.  
>>>>hda9 is the yaboot hfs partition and is 1 Mb in size.  hda11 is my 
>>>>1000 Mb linux swap partition and hda13 is my 10000 Mb ext3 YDL 
>>>>partition.  This leaves 29901 Mb of free space at the end of the 
>>>>drive.  Below is my 
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>>><SNIP>
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>>>Some of you may remember this thread from awhile back.  As an update, 
>>>I finally got around to repartitioning my B&W HD as it should be.  Now 
>>>my bootstrap is located on HDA9, OS9 is HDA11 and OSX is HDA13.  The 
>>>original problem I had was that when I went into OS9 and tried to 
>>>restart the computer, it would hang, basically just a blank screen.  
>>>Now that I have redone everything, both OSX and OS9 cause this 
>>>problem!  The only time I get the yaboot screen is when I restart from 
>>>YDL.  The original problem was thought to be because of the odd 
>>>location of my bootstrap drive but now it's in the "right" location.  
>>>Any ideas?
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>>Forgot to mention that the only way to recover from this condition is to 
>>reset the PRAM (Command-Option-P-R).  If I go into the Open Firmware 
>>screen I get the following error message twice at the top of the screen:
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>>NO ADDRESS PROPERTY FOUND!
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>>Is this a clue?  Typing mac-boot at the prompt then takes me back to the 
>>yaboot screen as it should.
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>>Just a message from Doug...
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Okay, gave that a shot.  The reset-nvram line went fine, but the 
set-default line resulted in a BAD DEFAULT error message.  I did some 
googling for this message but the only thing I found was in some other 
language so I could not read what it said about it.  What does it mean?

Just a message from Doug...