Re: missing ofboot.b?
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:24:59PM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:27:33AM +1000, Mark Hepburn wrote:
> > I have got to the step of running mkofboot
> > ('mkofboot --boot /dev/hda9 -m /target/etc/ofboot.b --root /dev/hda11
> > --partition 11'); the first time this complained that no such ofboot.b file
> > existed; I have an iMac running potato so I used ae to copy the contents of
> > its /etc/ofboot.b (skipping the <os-badge-icons> bit!) into
> > /target/etc/ofboot.b.
>
> this is anchient fossilized, very long ago deprecated behavior. i
> have no idea where you are finding these historic documents but the
> current procedure is -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot (no .b).
>
> this has been the case for a loooooooooong time now.
Yes, sorry about that, fixed that with the help of Chris Tillman yesterday.
The 'historic document' was the 2.2r0 install manual that I had a print out of
from doing an install, well, a long time ago. Since it was still potato I was
installing I hadn't bothered to check if there had been any changes; oops.
Works now anyway; thanks very much everyone.
--
Mark Hepburn
Engineering/Computer Science, University of Tasmania
pgp public key ID: 91602C17
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