Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:24:01PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 08:16:40PM +0200, Michel Daenzer wrote:
> > Ethan Benson wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:07:35AM +0200, Michel Daenzer wrote:
> > > > As the bootloader lives in AmigaOS entirely it doesn't make sense to
> > > > create a package for it.
> > >
> > > nor to add anything about it to kernel-package...
> >
> > It already has to handle the subarch, do you think this would be a big effort?
>
> to muck around with another OS yes.
>
> far better to just make your own specialized script and use a postinst
> hook to implement it. i think this is your only option given a recent
> dicussion about kernel-package bootloader stuff on -devel (manoj won't
> add specific grub support to kernel-package either -> use a postinst
> hook).
>
> > AFAIK Roman Zippel had implemented a LILO like loader at one point but it got
> > lost. :(
>
> lost? how? did he never distribute it to anyone?
>
> i would say `its been done once, it can done again'
Because only 3 person had the NDA and the access of not well done docs for it,
from which, i think only 1 is still actively working on apus, the hardward
company that made the boards went bankrupt some time ago and disapeared, and
other such stuff. So it is difficult for someone else to take this over.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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