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A possible recovery method for a dead startup disk
Authored by: oliverlubin on Aug 24, '04 02:01:41PM

these instructions are more clear:

(from http://www.bombich.com/mactips/openfirmware.html)

Boot into Open Firmware (OF) by holding down the Command+Option+O+F keys during startup.
2. Type "printenv" at the prompt
3. look for the boot-device setting. Write this down. Be accurate, the command line is unforgiving.
4. Type the following, assuming "mac-io/ata-4@1f000/@0:2,\\:tbxi" is your current setting:

setenv boot-device mac-io/ata-4@1f000/@0:2,\System\Library\CoreServices\BootX

then hit return. The only thing I changed was the "\\:tbxi" at the end, everything else stays the same. Also note that these are backslashes, not forward slashes!
5. Type "mac-boot"
6. Rejoice, because you're booting into X. Hopefully everyone gets to this step.
7. Now GO TO THE STARTUP DISK PREF PANE AND SET YOUR STARTUP DISK. You'll notice that it is still set to the OS 9 System Folder. That's because the GUI isn't designed to understand how we've tricked it. Just set the startup disk to your X disk. If you typed "nvram -p" in the Terminal before/after setting the startup disk, you'd see that it removes the \System\Lib... stuff and replaces it with \\:tbxi.

just saved me a hell of a lot of pain...



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A possible recovery method for a dead startup disk
Authored by: welshman on May 12, '05 01:38:29PM

I didn't get that far !
boot device is /APPL ROM

any ideas ?



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