Hum... I recently booted an old world ppc mac over the network. To do it, I did a:
boot enet <kernel command line options here> Don't ask me where I found that, I'm not sure. Just in my notes for trying to get my ppc working now that the hd is, errr, not so happy with me.... I've got some urls if you want them off list.... Basically apple's firmware is openboot compliant, like suns, just some of the names are different. >>>------> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:26:49AM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > I lied about posting. Here is a highly technical question. > > I have an older Powerbook G3 that I'm working on and for reasons we > won't get into here (like I dropped it and broke the hard drive and then > we gave away the cdrom drive thinking the whole machine was broken) it > is without a cdrom drive. I was wondering the other day if I could > netboot the thing off of a tftp-based linux-kernel image. I know it can > be done, but Apple's openfirmware is sufficiently different from Sun > Microsystem's (Apple's is based on Sun's) that I can't figure out how > and the docs on the internet are very few. I can set the boot device > with setenv boot-device, but I can't seem to find out what the network > device should. If any of you apple owners know, I would appreciate it. > On a Sun I would type boot net, but that doesn't work on the Apple forth > prompt. > > The funny thing is, I bet most Apple users never know that their > computer has a bios, and a powerful, forth-based one at that complete > with a command prompt. Oh that Intel had been so wise when they created > the crap for bioses that we have on pc's today. (Face it: PXE is a hack > around such limitations). > > Michael > -- > Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >>>------> -- +-------------+-----------------------+---------------+ | Ed Schaller | Dark Mist Networking | psuedoshroom | +-------------+-----------------------+---------------+
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