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Re: powermac boot-floppy patches



On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:44:19AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> Here are several patches to fix some things up on powerpc/powermac:
> 
> todo.diff - bootloader setup corrections, and update re yabootconfig

er small fix to todo.diff, new diff attached.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
Index: todo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/todo,v
retrieving revision 1.89
diff -u -r1.89 todo
--- todo	2001/05/28 01:50:35	1.89
+++ todo	2001/05/30 09:57:11
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     - quik stuff is a bit buggy because it's using the /vmlinuz
       symlink, and quik doesn't like that
     - we need to set the nvsetenv vars:
-        nvsetenv boot-device `ofpath <root device>'
+        nvsetenv boot-device "$(ofpath <root disk>)0"
         nvsetenv boot-file " Linux" (may not be needed)
      [ even this won't work on beige g3s ]
     - prevent /boot on a separate partition
@@ -33,12 +33,13 @@
       sensitive) partititon; the installer must enforce or at least
       lart the user if they don't have one immediatly after parititoning a
       newworld
-    - moreover, that apple_bootstrap partition must be on the same
+    - moreover, that Apple_Bootstrap partition must be on the same
       disk as the root partition
-    - Ethan Benson is adding a yaboot configurator to make the
-      yaboot.conf file and set nvram settings; provisionally called
-      'yabootconfig' and will be added to the yaboot pkg
-    - then run 'mkofboot -f -C /target/etc/yaboot.conf'
+    - Ethan Benson has added yabootconfig to upstream ybin.
+      dbootstrap need only run yabootconfig -t /target -r <root device> \
+      -b <Apple_Bootstrap device>, the last two are optional but recommended
+      (so yabootconfig does not have to guess what dbootstrap already knows.
+      yabootconfig will take care of running mkofboot correctly. 
 
 
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