Hi, I have been thinking about the way kernel-images currently handle the standard bootloader and boot-floppy questions on installation. Right now its rather deficient on powerpc as it assumes all PowerPCs are created equal which is far from the truth: it assumes all powerpcs use quik as the bootloader it assumes all powerpcs have floppy drives it assumes its possible to create a boot floppy on all powerpcs. NewWorld powermacs all lack floppy drives so it would seem logical to simply default to do_bootfloppy = False if the machine is a NewWorld powermac. however its impossible to really make a very useful bootfloppy on powermac in general, for oldworld we can copy the .coff kernel to a floppy which might be manually bootable via OF, but thats about it. i don't know about other powerpc subarchs. the bootloader stuff is what i am not entirely sure should be done with. yaboot/ybin does not really require anything to be done on kernel installation assuming /etc/yaboot.conf references the /vmlinux or /boot/vmlinux symlinks, kernel-image will update those automatically. the same is true of silo too but kernel-image does do a little bit with silo at least. I would like to hear what people thing the kernel-image packages should do on non-OldWorld PowerMacs as far as bootloader setup, and boot-floppy creation. at that point filing a bug against kernel-package asking for the changes will be done. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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