On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:43:38PM -0700, David Brown wrote: > > Bronze keyboard G3 Powerbooks (Lombard) do not work with yaboot. There is > some kind of initialization issue with the framebuffer that hasn't been > resolved. Even though I don't like it, I'm stuck using BootX on my > powerbook. I hope this problem will be discovered, someday, though. it will be, it probably just needs somebody less busy then Ben to look at it.. > I do agree that BootX is an annoying way to normally boot Linux. It just > looks strange to have the machine boot up and identify itself as MacOS, and > then go into Linux. what i found more annoying was macos -> bootx -> CRASH -> reboot -> macos -> bootx -> CRASH -> reboot -> macos -> bootx -> CRASH ..... that and having to screw around copying kernels onto a macos partition is really lame, kernels belong in /boot (or / if you prefer) on the ext2fs root filesystem dammit ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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