G4 mdd help request

Ethan Benson erbenson at alaska.net
Wed Jul 16 19:36:46 EST 2003


On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:09:40AM +0200, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
>
> I bought a dual G4-MDD and I installed my SCSI disk I used on
> my G3. Is there an osx command to get the openfirmware path of
> the yaboot partition on that disc ?  I tried to boot
> /pci at f2000000/ADPT,29160 at 12/@4:9,ofboot.b but it doesn't work.
> Macosx mounts the HFS partitions on the old disc, but it doesn't
> show any of them on the startup disk utility (does it need to be
> blessed again ?).

the yaboot bootstrap partition should be type Apple_Bootstrap and thus
never mounted by any macos, if this is the case there is no need to
rebless it since macos never tampered with it.

now if you didn't follow directions and made it an Apple_HFS then
macos probably broke it yes.

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Ethan Benson
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