Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:44:45PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
> I'd like to be able to simply boot off of the hard disk from with only
> an ext2 partition on the disk and nothing else. I must admit that I'm
> new to the PPC architecture so if this is already possible please let me
> know.
Er, it's currently impossible, mostly. On OpenFirmware machines (CHRP,
PowerMac) one needs a filesystem OF can read from, such as HFS or FAT. On
APUS, there's a similar type problem. On a PReP system, you can sort of get
away with this as the kernel has to ride on a magic partition which the kernel
gets dd'ed to. The embedded world can boot from flash or whatever the board
allows. Custom 6x/7xx/74xx boards can do whatever you make the HW understand.
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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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