On Oct 14 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
Yes, booting on oldworlds via a CD seems to be possible only with
proprietary drivers. OTOH, I could (when I had Debian installed on that
oldwordl) boot it with miboot on a floppy without problems.
What I did was to compile my own kernel, gzip the vmlinux file in the
root directory of the kernel sources (calling it with the appropriate
name), grab the hfs boot image from woody and replace the kernel from
the floppy.
Second someone has to write an installer component to install the
bootloader for oldworld after a successful installation.
I don't understand exactly what would be needed here. Which work exactly
needs to be done? Wouldn't the part that handles newworlds work
correctly, besides having to call quik instead of yabootconf (or is that
mkofboot) to set up the bootloader on the disk?
Would there be other code that needs to be written?