On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:22:16PM -0400, basicprinting@earthlink.net wrote: > I heard a rumour, > > >Well, benh, the yaboot author, said he plans to make yaboot work on all > >Power Macs, so he will do it. He has a 8100AV, and, so, I or somebody > >needs to fix the Apple AV card support before that is possible. Or else, > >we need to get him a NuBus/PDS video card which works with current kernels > >or an Apple HDI-45 video adapter cable. > > > Since I booted my powerMac7100 into Debian2.2potato using Greg's > installation yesterday, > I now have a handful of esoteric NuBus era video hardware left over; > including what I assume to be an HDI-45 to Apple 15pin female Video cable. > It worked when I plugged it between the 7100 and an Apple 16" monitor > *(under MacOS). > I'm currently using the "standard" High Performance Video card in the PDS > slot, and > Debian runs fine. > > So if the offer of yaboot for ancient PowerMacs is true... i think someone has misunderstood benh. yaboot is an OpenFirmware based bootloader, since NuBus macs do not have OpenFirmware at all, not even a hideously broken version there is no way yaboot will ever run on one. miboot on the other hand is possible, as it pretends to be macos and is loaded by the MacOS hardware ROM. benh has said he is interested in making yaboot compatible with Oldworld (PCI macs) OpenFirmware, it would then replace quik's second stage loader (you would still use quik, not a bootstrap partition as in newworlds). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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