On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 04:23:18PM +0100, Othmar Pasteka wrote: > after that go on as usual. you should use the "Edit kernel parameters" or > something like that and enter there the video=ofonly option so it > becomes added to the yaboot.conf file so that oyu don't have to > provide it yourself when you reboot. video=ofonly of course should not be necessary and wouldn't be if we added the option to boot/install with a 2.4 kernel, 2.2.19 simply won't cut it for most of the newwer apple machines, and ofonly video is NOT an acceptable long term option (its slow, X won't work right etc). that being said it seems to make sense to me that if video=ofonly was supplied for b-f boot it should be automatically added to the default additional boot paramaters. any objections to this? (it would be powerpc only of course). > the only real issue is the OpenFirmware sillyness, but that will > be resolved, i hope :). there is a documentation problem with G4 OpenFirwmare, someone needs to properly analize it and find the proper way to configure the netboot server. its also possible it only works with a proprietary Apple extended version of dhcpd. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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