Re: iMac266, OSX Man82ppc installation won't boot

[Vincent Danen]

On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 08:43 PM, Damon Garn wrote:

[...]
>>  Attempted the following:
>> 1. suggested fix of cmd-opt-o-f and set the OF option to the
>> designated partition (*) with 'setenv boot-device hd:8;\\tbxi' then
>> 'shut-down'
>
> What is /dev/hda8 (ie. what partition is this?  /boot?  the apple
> bootstrap?)
>
> [This was the designated partition identified by the M8.2 install as 
> the
> "blessed partition" where the normal startup would go to look for the 
> boot
> manager (as I understand the process). The expert mode setup said to 
> write
> that partition number down and use the above process in case of a 
> failed
> boot. The OSX partitions are previous to that and the 3 Linux 
> partitions I
> created follow it. ]


Ok, so you went into OF and did a "setenv boot-device hd:8,\\:tbxi"?  
(My syntax could be slightly off).  I had to do this last night myself, 
booting from an 8.2 install CD into rescue mode and running ybin in 
chroot as I booted into OS X and changed the startup disk to boot into 
OS9 so I could upgrade the version of palmos on my palm.  Does 
"printenv boot-device" show the correct thing?

I'm not really sure what else to suggest.  The strangest behaviour I've 
got is when turning on my G4 (after it's been off), it loads up a grey 
screen and stalls, and I have to power down again.  Once I power up the 
second time, ybin comes up just fine for me.

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