Re: missing ofboot.b?
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:28:36PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 06:48:00PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
>
> > is not necessary with the new version. However the potato install manual has
>
> you always need the -m switch when installing yaboot manually in
> potato, even if your machine is not as picky as the imacs and blue G3s
> about what format the bootfile is (they require Forth bootinfo format,
> not ELF), the newwer machines disable any textual output which makes
> interacting with yaboot impossible, my ofboot scripts restore this
> before executing yaboot.
>
> > a different version of that command, the -m flag is
> >
> > -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
>
> yes
>
> > so I'm wondering where your version came from?
>
> so am i, that has been gone ever since potato r2 came out, or maybe
> even r1... very very long time ago. nearly a year now.
You have to realize that, especially with pressed CDs and announced
releases, a year is not a very long time even in the software life
cycle. It's only because PPC released with potato that we don't get
more hamm questions here :)
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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