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. its possible on OldWorlds when you use quik, with NewWorlds its almost possible, you have to have an 800K type Apple_Bootstrap partition for the bootlaoder to be installed onto for those to boot. that is due to a limitation of the firwmare, it won't load a normal bootblock. the bootstrap partition is not mounted anywhere, does not contain kernels and does not need to be manipulated by you directly in any way. you just maintain /etc/yaboot.conf and rerun ybin on changes to the bootloader. much like lilo. kernels are loaded directly off your ext2 / filesystem. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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