Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:53:08PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > well, I found some more info on the net that basically said I need ResEdit
> > to configure miboot, so...
>
> this is something i consider broken about miboot, it really needs to
> parse a regular text configuration file like everything else.
>
> needing resedit is not entirely accurate but you probably won't like
> the alterative, which is to use a hex editor.
>
> the debian package `hexedit' has a decent hex editor.
Bear in mind that miBoot is incredibly tiny. It uses open firmware to
access the disk, which is notoriously unreliable.
We -might- be able to get away with a text config file - if i can get a
mac development environment up I'll prod at it.
>
> > well, my problem is probably miboot. Let's see if we can get quik to work,
> > and then work on the kernel thing... :)
>
> fix your openfirmware variable to enable quik.
>
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
Dan
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