What gives?

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Evidently, on your machine, "hd" is the devalias for
"/pci at 80000000/pci-bridge at d/pci-ata at 1/@0/disk at 0" in OF. Now that you have
the choice of OF in the prompt, you can try it and type boot hd:13,\\:tbxi
and see if it works that way.

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:42:10 -0400, GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 wrote:

> GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 wrote:
> 
>> Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
>>
>>> D'oh!! In an earlier post, you said that OS9 is on hda11 and OSX is on
>>> hda13, but here you have them the other way around! Also, if I were 
>>> you I
>>> would change the second line to simply "device=hd:" and add 
>>> "enableofboot"
>>> to the end.
>>>
>>> <SNIP>
>>>
>> Sorry Daniel, at the time I wrote that it was the other way around! 
>> During one of my attempts to fix this problem I reversed the order of 
>> the partitions to see if it made any difference.  It didn't so I went 
>> back to the old way of doing it.  Will give your latest suggestion a 
>> try.  Any guess as to why it was like that?
>>
>> Just a message from Doug...
>>
> Okay, no significant change except the addition of the open firmware 
> boot choice in the boot prompt.  After changing the yaboot.conf and 
> running ybin, looking at the nvram gives the boot device as:
> 
>> boot-device=/pci at 80000000/pci-bridge at d/pci-ata at 1/@0/disk at 0:9,\\:tbxi
> 
> Just where in the heck is this coming from?  Something is really messed 
> up, but what?
> 
> Just a message from Doug...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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