Re: what the hell is ``bondi blue?''
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 11:34:05PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 09:56:16PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 05:40:00PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > i might be persuaded to write some of the yaboot/bootstrap stuff but
> > > it woudl be good to know exactly what your planning for dbootstrap on
> > > those? are you going to make any attempts to activate the `make disk
> > > bootable' on newworlds? or is it up to the user?
> >
> > Not for potato.
>
> reasonable. we should be sure to document that `make disk bootable'
> won't work on newworld of course. (does it even work for oldworld?)
Maybe, maybe not :P
> > Basically, I put the tools on there, people can use them. I'm
> > rewriting most of the whole process for woody. Hopefully, we'll have
> > util-linux support Mac partition tables directly.
>
> its not too painful to do manually, we just need to do something to
> make sure that certain steps are done (like oh partitioning the
> *right* way, which is hard to fix later...) so long as the partition
> is there mkofboot makes the actual bootstrap configuration a one line
> command.
>
> did you get a ofboot.b script onto the boot floppies? or will that be
> 2.2.13?
Yep.
> by the time woody is to this point we should have a sane way to
> translate /dev/ nodes into gross OF paths that will improve things
> ALOT. (along with a way to write to the nvram)
Besides, we'll be on devfs, probably. Ben is working on a way to make
OF paths user accessible, also.
Dan
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