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Re: powermac boot-floppy patches



On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:13:28PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:02:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:13:32AM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 
> > ybin already supports installing and configuring for the IBM CHRP
> > setup (dd to bootstrap partition).  so all we need to do in dbootstrap
> > is check for that arch and check for a 0x41 partition instead of
> > Apple_Bootstrap, those will also have the requirement that /boot be
> > the same disk as / and bootstrap unlike newworld powermac.  
> 
> Done -- hope it works, at least it compiles. :-)

looks like it should, assuming chrp is what these machines Arch shows
up as... someone else will have to test it though, i don't have any
non-powermac powerpc hardware.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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