Just curious (additional)

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

OK, I just googled that myself and didn't come up with any non-English
results. Care to provide a URL? Did you do the reset-all despite the error
message and then reboot? If so, do you still get the message about the
address property?

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:53:33 -0400, GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>reset-nvram
>>set-default
>>reset-all
>>
>>On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 10:08:34 -0400, GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>>>GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>>>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 
>>>>>        
>>>>>
>>>><SNIP>
>>>>
>>>>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?
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>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:
>>>
>>>NO ADDRESS PROPERTY FOUND!
>>>
>>>Is this a clue?  Typing mac-boot at the prompt then takes me back to the 
>>>yaboot screen as it should.
>>>
>>>Just a message from Doug...
>>>
>>>    
>>>
> 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...
> 
> 
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