On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 06:23:11PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:47:41PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > >> > >> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/SystemDisk-tutorial/of105patch.html > >> > >> There's a link there for a floppy-image Mac OS that might be just the ticket > >> for you. > > > > OK heres some random thoughts... > > > > some oldworld machines can have thier firmware fixed up to boot > > GNU/Linux nicely, however if you boot MacOS (meaning the MacOSROM, not > > necessarily a disk based MacOS) all your nvram patches are lost, this > > is a problem since our only bootable floppy relies on the MacOSROM. > > > > so here is my idea: > > > > document how to get all the nvram patches installed (that will be your > > job Chris, thanks for volunteering). then after these patches are > > installed the user will boot into OF and boot the rescue.bin floppy > > rather then boot-hfs.img floppy. this will be possible if we change > > the pmac rescue image to hfs or msdos, and put a .coff format kernel > > on it in addition to the ELF. .coff kernels are bootable directly via > > OF on oldworld. the only problem i see here is getting the args set > > right so it requests the root disk.... > > > > there is also probably not enough space for another kernel... hmm > > Verrrry interressting .... > > I do have both a 1.05 and a 2.0 OF machine to test on, too. good, we need alot of testing on this. i would like to see at least a 40% success rate for quik setup. thats hideouly low expectations but what can i say.. oldworld openfirmware is crap. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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