Re: powermac boot-floppy patches
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:57:39PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > > this will all build fine even with the current yaboot in unstable
> > > (1.2.1-1.1.1-1) but for the future `Make system bootable' and
> > > ybinwrapper to work we must have yaboot (>=3D 1.2.1-1.2-1).
> >=20
> > Hopefully tht will come in soon. Woulnd't we change debootstrap or
> > else the yaboot wrapper to call yabootconfig ?
>
> debootstrap or dbootstrap? ;-) (/me imagines a real life discussion
> about the both of these)
Oh, sorry -- dbootstrap.
> ybinwrapper has at least one purpose:
>
> users have gotten used to being able to run ybin/mkofboot from the
> boot-floppy, ybinwrapper allows them to do so without having to know
> about an obscure environment variable. =20
Right...
> as far as dbootstrap goes it can either set the environment variable
> itself and run:
>
> /target/usr/sbin/yabootconfig -q -t /target -r /dev/root -b /dev/bootstrap
>
> or it can just run the wrapper /usr/sbin/yabootconfig -q -t
> =2E.. without bothering with the environment variable it doesn't really
> matter what way we do it, whichever you think makes most sense. i
> think the wrapper should be there for point 1 alone anyway... =20
I'd use the wrapper.
Is anyone working through the dbootstrap patch or should I hack on that?
--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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