Subject: Re: OpenFirmare dual boot problem
From: Dan (dan.kortschak@adelaide.edu.au)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 08:09:40 MDT
Thanks for that, I was really pulling my hair out - but learning a lot about OF
(which is kind of cool in an archaic kind of way). I was worried about using
ybin because my bootstrap partition is also my MacOS partition (I was partially
right because ybin did stop MacOS - or anything from booting until I could fix
up where ybin but the files and I could modify the ofboot script so that it
pointed in the right direction for its new placement... but it's all working
beautifully now and I have a script to play with). I would be nice if an example
ofboot script was provided with ybin, or ybin could be switched to not install
the parts, but leave that to the user, for situations like this (or am I missing
something really obvious?)
thanks
Dan
Riccardo Gusso wrote:
>
> >Subject: OpenFirmare dual boot problem
> >
> >Hi Everyone, I've got yaboot working on my Mac with YellowDog Linux
> >using the information (and a fair bit of imagination) in the back of the
> >YDL manual, but I can't get the dual boot CHTP script to work:
> >
> ><CHRP-BOOT>
> > <COMPATIBLE>
> > iMac,1 PowerMac1,1 PowerBook1,1 PowerMac2,1 PowerMac3,1 PowerBook2,1
> >PowerBook3,1
> > </COMPATIBLE>
> >
> > <DESCRIPTION>
> > Boot chooser
> > </DESCRIPTION>
> >
> > <BOOT-SCRIPT>
> > " get-key-map" " keyboard" open-dev $call-method
> > dup 20 dump
> > 5 + c@ 08 =
> > if
> > ." Booting Yaboot ..." cr " boot hd:5,\\yaboot.tbxi" eval
> > else
> > ." Booting MacOS ..." cr " boot hd:5,\\:tbxi" eval
> > then
> > </BOOT-SCRIPT>
> ></CHRP-BOOT>
> >
> >First, by the keyboardis frozen until yaboot or MacOS finish (which one
> >depends on who I place in the default position in the if else then
> >part). By Playing around with OF I found out that the line:
> >
> >" get-key-map" " keyboard" open-dev $call-method
> >
> >is causing this. I don't know enough about OF to hack this but I seems
> >to me that a boot chooser shouldn't disable the keyboard. Also, can
> >anyone tell me what the script is actually checking for with the c@ byte
> >fetch to make its decision of what to boot. I'm using Mac Open Firmware
> >3.10.f10.
> >Any help would be appreciated, havinf to call yabbot from the OF command
> >line is irritating.
> >
> >thanks
> >Dan Kortschak
> Hi Dan,
> I have beeen having the same exact problem with my imac rev.B; I solved
> it upgrading to ybin 0.17 that you can find at
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ybin/
>
> The new CHRP script works!
> Bye.
> Rick
>
> "And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
> What can I possibly say?
> I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
> I'm glad you stood in my way."
> L. Cohen, "Famous blue raincoat"
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