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Re: Testing boot-floppies on iMac



On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:12:26AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote:

> On Sam, 2002-02-16 at 21:27, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > initialization.  I had a Device section specifying Driver "ati", but
> > until I added the BusID parameter, it said that it couldn't find a
> > matching device section for the card.
> 
> A device section without a bus ID is normally assigend to the primary
> adapter; unfortunately, the primary adapter isn't recognized reliably yet
> on Macs. Providing the bus ID is the safe bet, and there's a debconf
> question for it now.

Wonderful, so that's fixed as well.

> > Also, how can I help to test future PowerPC boot-floppies?  Is there
> > some way to network-boot this beast, or do I have to continue to use
> > CD-Rs?
> 
> You can boot the installer kernel with the ramdisk from HD with yaboot, or
> am I missing something?

Yes, I suppose I could do that.  Thanks.

-- 
 - mdz



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