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Subject: Re: Trouble booting from hard drives on Powermac Quicksilver 933MHz
 G4
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On 09/25/10 16:33, Super Bisquit wrote:
> I picked up a G4 and decided to hose Mac OSX from it.
> That did ok.
> It has two hard drives and I've tried using the command of setenv
> boot-device hd0 with no luck.
> How do I search for the proper path to the boot loader using dev, ls,
> .properties, and devalias?
>
> Thanks for all and any help
>    

How did you install your system? Did you use boot1.hfs, or put 
/boot/loader on an existing HFS partition?
-Nathan