write into OF tree like nvsetenv

BenH bh40 at calva.net
Sun Jan 9 03:31:28 EST 2000


On Sat, Jan 8, 2000, Olaf Hering <olh at suse.de> wrote:

>it is possible to write into the OF settings to adjust the boot
>variables? nvsetenv do not work anymore on newer machines.
>
>Is there any way to change variables like "boot-device"?
>The idea is to automate the generation of yaboot.conf and booting via
>the os-chooser script.

nvsetenv needs fixing. There's a tool that comes with poof that should
work until I fix nvsetenv. Also, mvram is not accessible at all yet on
UMA machines (I'm working on that but it will only work when booting from
OF, not with BootX).


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