software:openfirmware
Table of Contents
OpenFirmware
Shortcuts
After power on:
- Hold “c” → Boot from cdrom
- Hold “o” + “f” + “command” + “option” → Boot in OpenFirmware shell
- Hold “option” → Select boot drive between cdrom, (blessed) internal partitions, (blessed) partition on FireWire disk. NO USB SUPPORT
- Holt “t” → Start up in Target Disk Mode (via FireWire)
Another table with more shortcuts
Shell commands
- printenv boot-device → Print current default boot device/elf
Boot an elf
- powerup your mac in openfirmware shell
- type: boot hd:6,grub.elf
NOTE: 6 is partition contains the elf binary, grub.elf is the elf name
If you would change your default elf at the boot time type: setenv boot-device hd:6,grub.elf
HowTos
software/openfirmware.txt · Last modified: 2012/09/04 16:18 by 127.0.0.1