Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Hubert Figuiere <hub-linux-ppc@trantor.staff.proxad.net> writes:

> On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:13, 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.
> 
> If the miBoot kernel could have a driver for Adaptec AHA2930B, it would
> be great. I currently use miBoot on my PowerCenter Pro 240 to boot in
> the disk that is on the AHA2930B solely because the 2930B can't be
> booted from OpenFirmware (due to lack of firmware) [1]. Not providing
> kernel that support this card is lack screwing everything up (the one I
> use comes from Woody and had it).
> 
> If only I could finally build a kernel that can boot with miBoot, I'd
> not have the problem.

Miboot can load a ramdisk, right?

So you need a ramdisk that will contain the Adaptec module.

MfG
        Goswin