Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999, Hartmut Koptein <Hartmut.Koptein@t-online.de> wrote:
>Have you an example file for this?
If what you want is an example BootX setting file, I can send you one
(it's binary, sorry, the prefs are in MacOS resources). basically, you
setup BootX the way you want, press the "save to prefs" button, and grab
the "BootX Settings" file from your extension folder.
On the CD, on an HFS partition, you put BootX, eventually renamed to
"installer" or whatever you want. In the same folder of the CD,
eventually hidden (by putting it in a corner of the window and resizing
it so that only the installer icon is visible), you put a "Linux Kernels"
folder with the kenrels you want and next to this folder, the ramdisk file:
/BootX
/Linux Kernels
/MyKernel1
/MyKernel2
/BootX Settings
/ramdisk.image.gz
BootX 1.2b1 (b2 will be here soon) can load "vmlinux.coff" like images,
with embedded ramdisk. Look at the kernel makefiles on how to make those,
basically you have to build your ramdisk image first, put it somewhere in
arch/ppc/boot or arch/ppc/coffboot, I'm not 100% sure, and then use the
appropriate make option (I really don't remember, you should really look
at the kernel makefiles about how this work). I do not support PReP
zImages, only coff images (which are compressed too). I could eventually
build you the image if you send me the ramdisk image to embed in it.
miBoot comes with a sample floppy disk image in MacOS DiskCopy format. In
order to work, you should be careful to have the appropriate boot blocs
on the floppy. I think I'll make an installer for the next version.
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