[openfirmware] Using Open Firmware as a boot manager

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.openfirmware at telemetry.co.uk
Sun Mar 20 10:07:28 CET 2011


Mitch Bradley wrote:
> On 3/19/2011 6:32 AM, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> 
>> The solution is to do this before executing boot:
>>
>> ok setenv initrd c:\boot\initrd.img
>>
> 
> Oops, typo.  Should be:
> 
>   ok setenv ramdisk c:\boot\initrd.img

I think that some of that stuff- how to locate devices, how to look in a 
filesystem, how to boot- could usefully be appended to your notes at 
http://www.firmworks.com/QuickRef.html Presumably device aliases, nvram 
contents etc. can be predefined on the development system.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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