Re: RFC: What should be done about kernel-image's bootloader questions

[Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com>]

Um, well, wait a second.  There's quik and there's yaboot.  The
latter needs a little 800K partition, but is that so wrong?  Quik
for old world and yaboot for newworld powermacs.  If you want to use
quik, you also have to be "good."  ~:^)

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Tom Rini wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:44:45PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to be able to simply boot off of the hard disk from with only
> > an ext2 partition on the disk and nothing else.  I must admit that I'm
> > new to the PPC architecture so if this is already possible please let me
> > know.
> 
> Er, it's currently impossible, mostly.  On OpenFirmware machines (CHRP,
> PowerMac) one needs a filesystem OF can read from, such as HFS or FAT.  On
> APUS, there's a similar type problem.  On a PReP system, you can sort of get
> away with this as the kernel has to ride on a magic partition which the kernel
> gets dd'ed to.  The embedded world can boot from flash or whatever the board
> allows.  Custom 6x/7xx/74xx boards can do whatever you make the HW understand.