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Owen Anderson resistor at mac.com
Mon Oct 27 19:09:30 PST 2003


On Oct 27, 2003, at 10:04 PM, peterg at ptree32.com.au wrote:

> 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 :-(

Oh well.  Not too serious, just a bit of an irritation.

>> 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 ?

Nope.  It's the built-in Gigabit ethernet on my PowerMac G4/400.  It's 
registered under OS X 10.3 as en0 if that helps at all.

Owen Anderson



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