From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 03:07:11 -0800 From: Ethan Benson To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: G4 mdd help request Message-ID: <20030716110711.GG7926@plato.local.lan> References: <20030716093646.GF7926@plato.local.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:16:44PM +0200, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > > On 16-Jul-2003 Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:09:40AM +0200, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > >> > >> I bought a dual G4-MDD and I installed my SCSI disk I used on > >> my G3. Is there an osx command to get the openfirmware path of > >> the yaboot partition on that disc ? I tried to boot > >> /pci@f2000000/ADPT,29160@12/@4:9,ofboot.b but it doesn't work. > >> Macosx mounts the HFS partitions on the old disc, but it doesn't > >> show any of them on the startup disk utility (does it need to be > >> blessed again ?). > > > > the yaboot bootstrap partition should be type Apple_Bootstrap and thus > > never mounted by any macos, if this is the case there is no need to > > rebless it since macos never tampered with it. > > IIRC it's Apple_Bootstrap, but first of all I must know the correct > ofpath... I also tried to boot the YDL2.3 cd without success :( just walk the device tree in OF. > > now if you didn't follow directions and made it an Apple_HFS then > > macos probably broke it yes. > > I'll try to get osx root access. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/