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Re: install (boot) problem sarge powerbook G3 (wallstreet)



On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 05:42, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Actually, miboot is a fully-fledged bootloader.  The only thing it 
> needs is a very small HFS partition to run out of (just big enough 
> for the initrd image and the compressed kernel -- plus the miboot 
> program itself, of course!).  It masquerades as a "System" file and 
> fools the oldWorld Mac boot-ROM into loading it as if it were.  
> Once loaded, it turn around and loads the kernel and initrd -- then 
> gets out of the way.

Hmm, would be slightly better than BootX then.
Still a pain to change kernels regularly though......
What is the problem to get quik to work actually?
Is Apple not giving some info?

Greetz,
Seb.



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