On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 12:17:17PM -0500, Eric C. Cooper wrote: > and the kernel boot messages appear there, but the yaboot prompt still > appeared on the monitor. I fixed this by replacing the ofboot
this is because i had to force it in the ofboot script, otherwise apple's braindamaged OF happily ensures that all ofboot/yaboot output goes to OF's /dev/null it would be better if i could make that more flexiable, but since this is a special case and you certainly won't need dual booting this solution is perfectly fine. > script with a much simpler one: > <CHRP-BOOT> > <COMPATIBLE> > MacRISC > </COMPATIBLE> > <DESCRIPTION> > PowerPC GNU/Linux First Stage Bootstrap > </DESCRIPTION> > <BOOT-SCRIPT> > load-base release-load-area > " hd:2,\\yaboot" $boot > </BOOT-SCRIPT> > </CHRP-BOOT> > I put this script in /etc/local/simpleboot, and changed yaboot.conf to use > magicboot=/etc/local/simpleboot > Now I can see the whole boot sequence on a terminal connected to the > serial port. note that your machine may not even need a magicboot at all, some newwer macs don't have the silly requirement that the bootfile (\\:tbxi) be a CHRP script. you can test this by simply commenting out `magicboot=' from your /etc/yaboot.conf and reruning mkofboot. > Finally, I removed the video card and turned off the kernel options > for console video, VTs, and input core support. I still needed ADB > support for access to the RTC and NVRAM devices, and I left in USB > audio so I can use the speakers. CONFIG_PPC_RTC requires adb support? are you sure? deprecated kludge /sbin/clock does, but you don't need that program anymore. > Without the video card, the Cube runs about 5 degrees C cooler, > according to the TAU info in /proc/cpuinfo. > > It's a great server -- small, quiet, and very stylish. very interesting, would you like you write a small mini-howto for penguinppc.org? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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