From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030716093646.GF7926@plato.local.lan> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:16:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Giuliano Pochini To: Ethan Benson Subject: Re: G4 mdd help request Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 :( > 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. Bye. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/