On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:42:49AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:17:47PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:08:30PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > > I just fixed a thinko in nobootloader, which causes it to always fail.
> > > Please upload the new version.
> > 
> > Done.

Thanks.

> BTW, i wonder if it would be good to provide more instruction in the
> postinst. Maybe we could do a check for the arch and subarch, and if
> possible provide a little text with additional info, like providing the
> amiboot/apusboot options to launch the kernel if on amiga or apus, and
> so on, and fall back to telling the kernel name (which we don't do right
> now) as well as the root partition. Possibly also the partition where
> the kernel was unpacked on, the one holding /boot.
> 
> What do you think about this ? 

In general, more information is better. However, it does provide the one
piece they really need. Everything else can be done on the native side.
I mean, for mac and amiga, they had to launch it off the hard drive to
start with, right?

Macs shouldn't be using hfs /boot partitions. It's considered bad form
and unsupportable.

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Stephen R. Marenka     If life's not fun, you're not doing it right!
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