Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.
Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:13:01AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Ok thanks for this response, this clearly clarifies the situation for
> > oldpmac, altough i don't really think this will modify our strategy for
> > oldpmac : miboot or bootx for initial install, quik for running systems
> > and miboot for those not supporting quik.
>
> In some cases, bootx is also easier than miboot for real usage. That's
> what I use on my Wallstreet PB so that I don't need yet another
> partition on the internal drive. I do sometimes want to boot OS8, and
> that's where I use bootx as well.
>
> Ideally, I'd suggest using miboot for actual floppy boot, and putting
> both miboot and bootx on the CD installer. Of course, you won't be
> able to make miboot actually be useful on the CD with only free
> software at this point, due to the issues covered in another thread.
Could you take a look at build/make/arch/linux-i386 (the three floppy
targets) and adapt them to create a miboot floppy?
MfG
Goswin
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