On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:39:27PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > This is pretty much what I did. Hopefully I'm calling yabootconfig > correctly. i have cvs access now, so i can commit any fixups needed. > > Stephen Marenka mentioned having some preliminary patches already, we > > should probably look at that first to avoid any effort duplication. > > Sorry I didn't get them in earlier. All my patches are included, > although I haven't fully tested them. I finally got a full install > (rebooted and all the way up) on an OldWorld PowerMac, including quik. > The patches I needed to make that work are in here, but untested. i have only newworld hardware to test on.. one thing i think we should add is a dialog explaining that making an oldworld bootable usually requires some effort on the part of the user no matter what, typically running apple's System Disk control panel to get the nvramrc patches, and of course the ritual goat sacrifice. it should probably be a dialog letting the user backout, since if OF fails to boot they will get the notorious `black screen syndrome' > > one other side issue, do we plan to support IBM CHRP hardware? > > (RS/6000 and such) these machines also use yaboot, but install it a > > bit differently. yabootconfig and ybin already support that. the > > difference dbootstrap is interested in is they use msdos disklabels > > and a type `0x41 PPC PReP Boot' bootstrap partition, yaboot is > > directly dded to it (mkofboot does that). > > Doesn't sound too tough, I'll write patches if you spell out what you > want and someone is willing to test. finding someone willing to test is the hard part, i have yet to find anyone who will test the preliminary stuff in ybin really.. (well on person on debian-powerpc but he partitioned his disk wrong so yabootconfig would not work). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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