On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:37:21PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > WARNING ! If you compile yaboot yourself, do NOT use the "yaboot.chrp" > binary on a PowerMac. Use the "yaboot" binary. The CHRP version on a > PowerMac may confuse Apple's Open Firmware quite badly, I've had reports > of machines rendered unbootable just because they tried to load that > binary. This problem seems to be related to a bug in Apple's OF that > shokes when it encounter the ELF "notes" section that is added to > the CHRP version of yaboot. just a note on this, ybin 1.2.3 and later (current version 1.2.4 available at penguinppc.org/usr/ybin only) handles this intelligently, on IBM CHRP hardware it adds the necessary .note to a temporary copy of yaboot prior to installing it, on everything else (such as powermacs) it installs the normal .noteless binary. > A new version of ybin (1.2.4) have been released as well by Ethan > Benson (link on my page). http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin for the lazy alaska.net is not yet updated due to my ISP's admins being dorks. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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