Re: new G4 dual 1 gig is here - how to install?

Subject: Re: new G4 dual 1 gig is here - how to install?
From: Kevin B. Hendricks (kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 06:49:40 MST

Hi,

Thanks everyone for you helpful hints.

I have now done a make zImage and built it so I will try that option
tonight.

I was also able to boot into Mac OS 9.2 and run DisplayNameRegistry and
dumped it to a file so I should be able to figure out the correct path to
the scsi boot device from that info (I hope).

If not, I will try the idea of putting a small Mac OS boot script on a
scsi partion and try to use the "print-env" boot-device info to figure out
the of boot path. And then I will try either changing the ofboot.b script
or trying to boot yaboot directly.

I will give all of these things a try tonight and report back.

Thanks again for all of the ideas.

Kevin

On February 13, 2002 03:00, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> > BTW: Are there any nice utilities to let me snoop through the OF
> > device tree under Mac OSX. I know I can get DisplayName Registry to
> > work under MacOS 9.2 but would rather do my machine snooping under OSX
> > if possible.
>
> Copy the boot file in the root of a hfs partition, select that one as
> boot volume. Boot to OF prompt, type "printenv boot-device", that will
> give you a clue about that path name. Then change the ,\\:tbxi part to
> ,filename.
>
>
> Gruss Olaf

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