On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:01:14PM -0700, Laurent de Segur wrote: > on 9/3/01 5:48 PM, Ethan Benson at erbenson@alaska.net wrote: > > > > > the kernel is not stored on teh bootstrap partition, its stored on > > your ext2 / partition or your ext2 /boot partition. never on teh > > bootstrap partition. > > > > > Are you sure? That's big news to me! I need to readjust here (and I need a > drink too :-) um, yes im sure, i do maintain the powerpc bootloader stuff afterall. > If what you say is correct, then I have always misunderstood this and > probably got confused since the days of BootX where you needed to store your > kernel in the hfs partition (where bootx was residing.) Now that you are bootx is only for oldworld crap. newworlds cannot and must not use it. > saying that, I kinda understand why nowhere it was mentioned to copy the > kernel image to the bootstrap partition. Indulge me, but please confirm > this. Thanks, you must not put kernels on the bootstrap partition. the bootstrap partition must be exactly 800K and be type Apple_Bootstrap, it must not be mounted anywhere at any time. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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