On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 06:19:09PM +0000, Chris Tillman wrote: > + <p> > +Nubus systems are not currently supported by debian/powerpc. The > +monolithic (LinuxPPC) kernel architecture does not have support for the proper term is PPC/Linux or Linux/PPC. LinuxPPC is a corporation and a unsupported corporate distribution. > +The NewWorld PowerMacs use a more complete Open Firmware bootloader, > +which supports booting from a network or an ISO9660 CD-ROM, as well as > +ELF binary loading. These machines will boot Linux directly via > +<prgn>yaboot</prgn>, which supports loading a kernel and ramdisk > +directly from an ext2 partition, as well as dual-booting with MacOS. please add a note that BootX is NOT supported on NewWorlds and MUST NOT be used on them. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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