Problems with the loader

[Philip S. Schulz]

on 05.08.2006 23:21 Uhr Peter Grehan said the following:
> Hi Philip,
> 
>>  1. Hold down 'C' while booting: I can hear the CD spin up, it seems
>> like there is disk activity but then the drive spins down again and 
>> Mac OS X is started.
> 
>  Hmmm, that one's supposed to work. I even tried this out on the same 
> model Powerbook, but a 15", the other day.
> 
>  One big advantage of these models is that the internal keyboard/mouse 
> are USB so will work without an external keyboard.
> 

Well, maybe the 12" and 15" models are different. The internal keyboard 
doesn't seem to work.

>>  2. At the Open Firmware prompt, type "boot cd:,\boot\loader": The
>> loader starts, but says: "can't load 'kernel'" and then "no bootable 
>> kernel"
> 
>  Close ! :)
> 
>  For a manual load from the cd, you have to pass 'cd:0' as an additional 
> parameter e.g.
> 
>  boot cd:,\boot\loader cd:0
> 

That worked. Thanks! I should mention though that I got the "boot cd:, 
..." line from http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/install.html :-)

[...]

>>  4. Also I have tried to copy boot/ from the CD to the internal 
>> harddisk an boot from there by saying "boot hd:,\boot\loader" at the 
>> Open Firmware prompt. Same effect as in 2.
> 
>  Makes sense: the loader will use the volume it was booted from to try 
> and load the kernel. Since 'hd:' is most likely HFS+ formatted, the 
> loader won't be able to read it.
> 

Right, it is HFS+.

Thanks again,

Phil.

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