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Re: request for help to make powerpc custom boot disks



On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:41:13PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:56:18AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > An aborted attempt to switch? It makes no sense to even have
> > the OpenFirmware code if it isn't used.
> 
> Oh, it's used all right.  Reading the disk is one of those things it
> just isn't used for, though.
> 
> They did a much better job their second time through the Open Firmware
> mess.

Has anyone ever thought about trying to re-burn the firmware in an OldWorld
with the NewWorld version? Probably wouldn't want to risk a perfectly good
box to debug it...

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