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Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac



On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 03:06:03PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I don't think the errata takes any notice of the fact that, quite  
> independent of "freeness" considerations, there is *no* working boot  
> loader for the 2.6.16 kernel on an OldWorld Mac.  I've tried both  
> bootx and quik and neither of them work on my beige G3.  In it's  
> current state, even if it were free, miboot would not be a workable  
> solution because it only works from floppies.

Well, it works on a hard disk, but as I said earlier, it is not
trivial to get it working by hand.

Cheers,
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