OF boot commands for firewire

Andreas Tobler toa at pop.agri.ch
Sat May 21 21:57:00 GMT 2005


Hello Peter,

new subject. You mentioned that your build was done on an external fw 
disc on a macmini. Do you also boot from it ?

My question goes in this direction, what are the OF boot commands to 
point to the root drive being on a fw drive ?

I have placed the loader on a hfs drive.
Now I enter OF and I type 'boot hd:7,\boot\loader fw:3| fw:3, ....
(I do not know if fw:3 is really right, or if we need additional 
arguments. There is only one drive attached to the bus and it has 3 
partitions, map, swap, root)

It does find the loader but not the kernel to boot.

So, a 'dir fw:3,\' does not show anything. Do we need some additional 
steps ? Should it be possible or no luck at all?

Any pointers, ideas ?

Thanks,
Andreas



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