Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/7025-F50 (PPC 604e, CHRP)

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Subject: Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/7025-F50 (PPC 604e, CHRP)
From: Martin Küchler <martin@k0k.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:00:48 +0100
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Sven Luther wrote:
>> >I believe that we may create a PReP-bootloader-installer or something
>> >which would take care of moving the kernel to this partition. Not sure
>> >though how this would work out. A bit like what nobootloader does.
>> No, wait... we really want to use yaboot.
> 
> And, are you sure yaboot works on PReP machines ? Not on CHRP boxes
> using a PReP partition for booting, but on real PReP system

Having followed your discussion, I tried yaboot on my Motorola Powerstack
Utah (PReP, not CHRP), and it crashes on boot. I've found no indication
whatever that these machines are supported by yaboot, so I don't think so.
CMIIW, in this case I would file a bug report someplace... 

Regards,

Martin

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