On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:53:48PM +0900, pantaloon wrote: > > surprizing to be informed about that > mac-oriented magazines here in japan > even now > teaches imac rev.a-b users to use the Boot X extention > when they are to install linux mac-oriented rags, or any rag for that matter usually can't tell the difference between and operating system and a glue gun. mac-oriented magazines probably think linux is a MacOS Application and not an OS. > yes at first i was informed that imac rev.b was newworld > but many faq places told me that they don't work that way > and at last > you are telling me what it really is..right? it is newworld, and i have not seen anywhere that says that yaboot won't work on it. perhaps you are finding some old docs from back before yaboot existed, quik does not work on newworlds, so before yaboot it was impossible to boot via OF. > oh > i meant that > 8.5.1>8.6 required me to do the firmware update before that process > so i did > but i'm not sure if that update was the last one(?) > that will fix the OF-bugs > so there may have been two updates for that imac, go look on apples' software update page and see. > if my firmware-updating turned rev.b totally-newworld > the fact is that > it can still at least boot linux via bootx too > but it is also that > many people are suggesting to quit doing that yes, if you report problems with linux and are using bootx your answer is going to be `don't use bootx, use yaboot and try again' > maybe that's the reason > windowmaker showed dirty icons > ]even after i forced the video to > > video=atyfb:vmode:17,cmode:16 windowmaker doesn't handle 16 bit color correctly on big endian hardware as i understand it. use 24 bit color instead and windowmaker will be fine. > any comments for > booting with option pushed? the option key boot menu is not available on your machine, only ibooks and APG G4s have this feature. > i mean using the magicboot thing the old spacebar script? this is obsolete, use ybin. > in other partions system > if this is not bad > i'd like to choose that way you need a Apple_Bootstrap partition. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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