Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:43:34 -0500 Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com> writes:
[...]
> And quik will work -- assuming that the fix for booting with an initrd
> makes it into the sarge distribution. And assuming that he has the
> fortitude to look up and install the OF patches that are required for
> his particular hardware.
No patches required. Quik installs some OF variables that boot from
harddisk. You need the patches for OF only if
- You can't live with the fact that OF will do its IO on serial console
- And your monitor does not sync with OF output device to frame buffer
console
I'm living happily with a serial console for OF.
> And assuming that he can deal with the fact that those patches will
> disappear and have to be re-installed every time he zaps the PRAM, or
> boots MacOS for any reason, or his cmos-battery gets tired and has to
> be replaced -- a fairly common occurrence with old Macs -- or a host
> of other more obscure reasons.
Hmm. Maybe I can help others here: I've just measured the current drawn
from the CMOS battery because mine was drained in about 8 weeks:
- With the mac power cord plugged in I'm not measuring any current
(<< 5µA)
- Without the power cord the mac draws around 100µA or a little more
from the battery. This is with the Ampere-Meters resistor in series
with the battery which may introduce some measuring error.
So be sure to keep the mac plugged in even if you are not using it,
otherwise the CMOS battery will be drained.
BTW: I'm much more happy with an OF solution which is at least somewhat
documented and which I do understand than with one where I have to boot
some foreign operating system with which I'm not familiar at all. I'm
leaning fairly far on the command-line side of user interfaces, though
:-)
Ralf
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