site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On Aug 19, 2005, at 9:29 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: On Aug 19, 2005, at 21:03 , Herbert wrote: bless -mount "/Volumes/My iPod/" -setBoot nvram: Error (-1) setting variable - 'boot-device' /usr/sbin/nvram returned non-0 exit status Can't set Open Firmware Regards, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-at-Large /~\ The ASCII \ / Ribbon Campaign X Help Cure HTML Email / \ This email sent to herbylovebug@shaw.ca _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... No, I'm not root, it's an admin account. I had hoped you didn't need to be root to do it. I'm trying to use bless to change the boot device. Below is what I get. A shot in the dark: are you doing this as root (sudo bless ...)? In order to write the nvram, you do need to be root. The Lock is set (closed) in System Utilities, so I have to click on it and enter my password. I tried unlocking it before using bless but no joy. I think the lock in this case just controls what you can do with the "System Utilities" (you mean the Startup Disk panel in System Prefs??). It has no effect on what happens on the command line. I think this may be the problem but I'm not sure. I can't remember how to turn that lock to "off" permanently. Can anyone else? The lock is 'open' for me (on the few panels I checked). I don't know how to control that, though. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/herbylovebug% 40shaw.ca This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com