Re: [mac68k] Do you want to play with a floppy ?

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:35:26PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>
> Le 1 sept. 07 à 01:14, Laurent Vivier a écrit :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> EMILE, the macintosh m68k bootloader, is now able to manage "multiboot".
>>
>> If you want to play with a pre-release, download 
>> http://emile.sourceforge.net/emile-multiboot.bin
>
> It is now working with a SCSI disk:
>
> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2wh7g_emile-multiboot_tech
>
> you need to download .deb:
>
> http://emile.sourceforge.net/SNAPSHOT/emile_0.11_m68k.deb
> http://emile.sourceforge.net/SNAPSHOT/emile-bootblocks_0.11_all.deb
>
> You need a configuration file /boot/emile/emile.conf like this one:
>
> 8< --------------------------- cut here 
> ------------------------------------------- >8
>
> partition       /dev/sda4
> first_level     /boot/emile/first_scsi
> second_level    /boot/emile/second_scsi
>
> timeout         5
> default         0
>
> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-mac
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-mac
> args            root=/dev/sda4 ro
> initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-mac
>
> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.2.25-mac
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.25-mac
> args            root=/dev/sda4 ro

This looks suspiciously close to grub's format. I guess I'll be looking
at that to manage it. Thanks! ;-)

BTW, speaking of emile: I've been having issues getting it to work past
what's in the archive currently. I suspect compiler issues, but I'm not
sure. What are the exact compiler versions you use, currently?

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