What gives?

Daniel Gimpelevich daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us
Sun Oct 10 23:03:52 MDT 2004


OK, I don't know what ASVP means, but the boot-args supplies arguments to
the boot-loader. Yaboot doesn't use it, but perhaps Mac OS ROM and BootX
do? What happens if you specify the "brokenosx" option in yaboot.conf and
rerun ybin -v?

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 01:37:48 -0400, GDB-B&W-X.3.5 wrote:

> Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> 
>>I would have thought you wanted to know how to look at it so that you
>>could make a record of what it says under YDL after an unsuccessful boot
>>into OSX (before you reset the PRAM), and compare it to what it says under
>>OSX when booting into OSX succeeds. There's probably no need to understand
>>the stuff that matches; it's whatever's different that would be a red flag.
>>
>>  
>>
> Okay, have taken your advice and printed a list of both to compare.  
> Here are the results.  Under the YDL list a total of 42 settings were 
> listed.  Out of those 42, only one item that did not correspond to a 
> setting on the OSX list: aapl,pci=
> 
> On the OSX list, a total of 43 settings were listed.  Out of those 43, 2 
> items did not show up on the YDL list:
> 
> ASVP    010717000032%00
> boot-args
> 
> Although listed in different order and a somewhat different format, the 
> rest of the items corresponded exactly to both lists.  Can you make 
> anything out of this?
> 
> Just a message from Doug...
> 
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