Problem booting into MorphOS 3.3 on Mac Mini
  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    metalmac
    Posts: 87 from 2007/5/26
    One more question.

    I reinstalled MorphOS in My Mac mini and all seemd to go well, just a litle problem.
    Everytime I start up the computer I get in to Open Firmwire mode and has to write "mac-boot" to start MorphOS.

    It says that it cant find specific MAC partition, hd:3, //bootinfo.txt

    Is there anything I can do to get it to boot into morphos automagicaly?
    PowerBook G4@1.5Ghz, 1Gb ram, MorphOS 3.12
    Amiga 1200, Blizzard 1220/4@28Mhz, 500Mb HD, 6mb RAM, Workbench 3.1
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  • MorphOS Developer
    jacadcaps
    Posts: 3108 from 2003/3/5
    From: Canada
    Quote:

    metalmac wrote:
    One more question.

    I reinstalled MorphOS in My Mac mini and all seemd to go well, just a litle problem.
    Everytime I start up the computer I get in to Open Firmwire mode and has to write "mac-boot" to start MorphOS.

    It says that it cant find specific MAC partition, hd:3, //bootinfo.txt

    Is there anything I can do to get it to boot into morphos automagicaly?



    Have you fiddled with your OF settings in the past? If so, you likely need to fix the partition number.
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    metalmac
    Posts: 87 from 2007/5/26
    The only thing that I remember doing a ling time ago whas muting the start up sound.
    But had dualboot with MacOS and MorphOS earlier.

    Do you know how to turn things right in OF?
    PowerBook G4@1.5Ghz, 1Gb ram, MorphOS 3.12
    Amiga 1200, Blizzard 1220/4@28Mhz, 500Mb HD, 6mb RAM, Workbench 3.1
    AspireOne, 1Gb RAM, 160Gb HD, Icaros Desktop
    AmigaOne 500, 2Gb ram, AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition
  • »17.10.13 - 15:43
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    metalmac
    Posts: 87 from 2007/5/26
    I have found out what to do, think I should share it for you all that is novice like me. :)

    First of all, start open firmwire by holding down "command + alt + o + f" on startup until you see the OF screen.

    To determine the partition number of the HFS boot partition where the bootinfo.txt file is located type the following:

    dir hd:x,\\

    where x should be a number of the hd partition, in my case I found the first partition at number 2.
    when I wrote "dir hd:2,\\" I found a list files, among them the "bootinfo.txt and by that I new that this is the partition I was looking for.

    Now type:

    setenv boot-command boot hd:x,\\bootinfo.txt

    Now save the changes and reboot by typing:

    reset-all

    Now enjoy booting directly in to MorphOS 3.3 and feel the incredible boot speed!

    :-)
    PowerBook G4@1.5Ghz, 1Gb ram, MorphOS 3.12
    Amiga 1200, Blizzard 1220/4@28Mhz, 500Mb HD, 6mb RAM, Workbench 3.1
    AspireOne, 1Gb RAM, 160Gb HD, Icaros Desktop
    AmigaOne 500, 2Gb ram, AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition
  • »17.10.13 - 18:56
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