Re: On getting quik to work with oldworld machines (was: Re: Strange frequency reported by the kernel)

[vinai <vroopcha@mcw.edu>]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, [iso-8859-1] Rogério Brito wrote:

> On May 25 2005, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> > quik doesn't know about ext3 journaling. So better use a normal ext2
> > partition for /boot or be very sure that the /boot partition is unmounted
> > properly before rebooting.
>
> Yes, that was the point of my message. OTOH, the sarge d-i says that
> quik won't work with a /boot partition separated from a root partition.
>
> This is, anyway, a major annoyance regarding the way quik works.
>
> It would be so nice if it were possible to have a unified bootloader for
> both oldworld and newworld machines that understood symlinks (the config
> file for quik mentions that it doesn't know how to follow symlinks).

I'll try your suggestions this weekend.  Right now, I have a SCSI disk
in my 8500 which boots Mac OS 9 + Linux via BootX.  To test this, I'll
probably have to remove the SCSI disk, and set up my linux drive to be
able to boot via quik.  On the bright side, I have a couple of spare
SCSI disks that need to be formatted, and I can probably borrow them
for a weekend to be able to test this out more completely, without me
(completely) destroying my old installation :)

I'll report back when I have some test results - good or bad.

Thanks Rogerio.

vinai