Re: powermac boot-floppy patches
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:04:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 06:35:46PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> >
> > I understand that, the problem with check_for_native_partition is that
> > it is called after any disk is partitioned, so I'm not sure there's a
> > good way to check for root and Apple_Bootstrap on the same disk. That
> > may have to be checked when root is mounted. That's why I abandoned
> > check_for_native partition originally. What I was thinking about was
> > checking for the existence of an Apple_Bootstrap partition on any disk
> > after any disk is formatted. If none exists, then raise an alarm
> > (complete with continue anyway, let me be an idiot).
>
> at mount of root might not be bad...
Agreed.
> > I was thinking more on relying on existing documentation and mail
> > archives. I only have a 7500 and a 7600 available for testing.
>
> that would do.. or maybe we could ask a second question about setting
> output-device if the machine is in the list of `we think it will work'
I like that -- let the user decide.
> > > it, so a symlink to boot/vmlinux-foo becomes a symlink to simply
> > > vmlinux-foo.
> >
> > Oh right. Since my patch added a preceding /, you might not want that
> > bit. Although, I'm not still not clear why you'd want that symlink.
> > Doesn't it depend on your current working directory? What am I missing?
>
> otherwise a specific kernel version is written into /etc/yaboot.conf,
> if we point yaboot at a symlink the user only has to repoint the
> symlink on kernel upgrades, no need to edit /etc/yaboot.conf and rerun
> ybin. kernel-image .debs will do that automatically (an in /boot
> rather then / if so configured in /etc/kernel-img.conf).
>
> yaboot won't have a problem with a relative symlink so long as it
> works within /boot alone (if its a partition). so a symlink foo ->
> bar will work with yaboot, but a symlink foo -> /boot/bar will not
> since /boot is / as far as yaboot cares.
I think I've got it: you're creating vmlinux->vmlinux-2.2.19 in the boot partition.
> i think i am going to delete the /vmlinux symlink if /boot is a
> partition, it will only annoy yabootconfig and cause confusion i
> think.
Because no matter what you do to /vmlinux it will still point to
->/boot/vmlinx(whatever) which is across a partition (perhaps). Would it
be better for yaboot/yabootconfig to be made smarter? That would make
things like make-kpkg (which still needs to support ybin, I think) easier
and keep cross-platform consistency which is always nice.
> > > i am not seeing any change to that right now though.. you sure you
> > > commited that change?
> >
> > My screen still says bootconfig.c new version 1.98. Hmmmm. Maybe I'll do
> > a fresh checkout to see what's going on.
>
> i saw the quik dialog changes, but nothing in that symlink stuff..
Doh! How about now? (I dropped the / that I added before but which you never
saw -- it looked like the quik readlink code.)
--
Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right!
<stephen@marenka.net>
Reply to: