Re: PowerPC Install
Sven Luther wrote:
>
> the .coff booting is probably the
> only free alternative, but i am told requesting a debian oldworld user to get
> the serial console working is not acceptable.
Only unacceptable in the sense that Open Firmware is dramatically different between machine types. Apple developed it only so far as necessary to get their machines to boot... This process left a new and different (and wonderfully diverse) crop of bugs for each new machine type.
Thus, the problem is that instructions for using Open Firmware to boot directly would have to be different in detail for each PowerMac machine type -- not altogether a pleasant prospect. The BootX, miboot and (to some extent) quik bootloaders mask these inter-machine differences, making them vastly simpler to document and use.
Enjoy!
Rick
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