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Subject: Re: OF boot commands for firewire
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Hi Andreas,

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

  I haven't with the mini, but I boot the powerbook from it all the time.

> 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)

  Almost :)

  For partition 3, what you want to do is:

  boot hd:7,\boot\loader fw/node/sbp-2/disk@0:3

  If the fstab file is set up on the firewire drive, the kernel will 
just go straight into mounting root without prompting.

later,

Peter.