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. GENERAL TASKS FOR WOODY
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