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peterg at ptree32.com.au peterg at ptree32.com.au
Mon Oct 27 19:04:34 PST 2003


Hi Owen,

>1) I found that the "boot -s" command failed to boot the
>system in Singe User Mode.  I had to go online and look 
>up the "set single_boot" command in order to get it working.

 Yes, sorry, I think this is just a mis-match with the
old loader. The new one does pass through '-s', but it
doesn't sync the icache :-(

>2) My ethernet card is not registering.  I don't know if
>there just isn't a driver, or if it's failing to bind.  
>I'm using a G4/400, and the only indication that shows 
>up in dmesg is this:
>
>pci2: <network, ethernet> at device 11.0 (no driver
>attached)

 I think the only drivers compiled in are the fxp and gem.
I'm assuming this isn't the on-board ethernet ? 

later,

Peter.


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