Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 05:01:28PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> >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.
>
> No, miBoot doesn't use OF. It's a fake MacOS System and it uses MacOS ROM
> calls to access the disk. Note that since the real System file isn't
> loaded, it solely relies on ROM-based MacOS drivers & filesystem, which
> can eventually be bogus...
Oh, thanks. I knew it used bogus drivers, I just got confused as to
which set of bogus drivers :)
Do you see any problems in loading a config file, if I were to write
the necessary parsing code? It would make miBoot much more useful,
IMO...
Dan
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| Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 |
| Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University |
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