On 06-02-06, at 1824 , Shantonu Sen wrote:
What's the output of "nvram -p" after you run this kswap script?
the boot-file variable is: first-boot/@0:3,mach_kernel.orig I was also booting off a fw disk, in which case the fw disk address was a big long mess. I read that some machines don't like the @0:#, instead requiring @0:0, but I'm not sure that makes sense for this particular case, since it's being copied directly from the boot- device variable: first-boot/@0:3,\\:tbxi perhaps boot-file needs to have some \'s or /'s preceding the filename? I haven't been able to find much info at all on the particulars of boot-file and different machines/os's. it seems like it's just a handy place to pass some info to the boot-loader, so perhaps I need to go diving in BootX? for now just copying my new kernel onto /mach_kernel and keeping a rescue os on a fw disk seems like a decent method.
In any event, be wary of shell scripts downloaded from the internet. ;-)
true enough. doesn't almost all of darwinbuild fall into that category? :) best regards, r.