Re: m68k

[Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:21:33AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> You mean like floppy disks which can boot a mac (and atari and amiga and vme
> and q40 and sun) into linux? With something like lilo? Nice idea...
> Has anybody written such a lilo yet? And what about the kernel drivers for
> floppy access?

I believe Nick Holgate had boot-floppies working with scsi floppy drives
for some VME boards.  Most VME board installs are done via the network
using tftplilo.  The PROM code supports net booting, and tftplilo is an
executable that processes a lilo.conf-like file on the server, and then
pulls kernels and ramdisks from the server as required.  Once installed
we have vmelilo to boot from harddisk.

Richard