Re: booting a kernel through open firmware.
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 09:58:20AM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote:
> >
>
> The instructions for using yaboot are in the manual (link in my .sig).
>
Thanks!
> OpenFirmware is not a boot loader; yaboot was designed to bridge the
> gap between OF and the kernel. If you'd like to see how it works,
> download the source and check it out.
I will.
I realize that OF is not a boot loader and I said I new I could
use yaboot. I probably will install yaboot. I made a partition
for it on my disk. I have Linux already installed on a disk
and want to boot that setup through OF and install yaboot from
there. That might be a weird way to do it, but that's what I
wanted to try. Also I see launching a linux kernel from the
OF prompt as a good fall back if I hose other booting setups
somehow. (I do that occasionally.)
I've looked through a number of OF docs from the Apple website, but
I did not see a good explanation of how the device paths are
structured.
Is there a command like "probe-scsi" from the Sun OF on the
Macintosh?
Fred
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