On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:51:53AM -0400, SR, ESC wrote: > > Yep, but nobody came forward and did so. This should h&ave been mentioned in > > the errata though at least. > > there's people who did for woody, but they feel that they were > overlooked and hurt from that, and therefore didn't pitch in, and i'm > no coder, i'm more bofh. maybe i can get him to help, and not do > "everything".
That is pure bullshit, i have been asking for help on miboot since over a year befor the release, and only a few cared to help there, as the archives of debian-boot will show you.Who are those supposed people anyway ? Ethan probably ? Well, i had to battle during 6 month tro get him to accept theamiga partitioning support in yaboot, and from what i understood, he wanted us to do it his true right wxay and nothing else. > > The current only way to boot an oldworld in a free manner is to drop to the > > firmware and boot the vmlinuz-coff.initrd from it. > > hmm, do you have some reference docs to do that? that looks > potentially rather interesting. You have to drop into the firmware. Docs may probably be found on apple site for that, but the way i know involves a serial cable. > > > > Maybe i should build a couple of miboot floppies accompanying the > > > > official > > > > release ? > > > > > > that would be nice, and appreciated. quite often people installing > > > linux want nothing to do with mock os, or apple. the oldworlds often > > > (Notice i did build some nubus kernel even, but i guess nobody even bothered > > to test those.) > > it's ok, some people did, in the channel for instance. but i had zero feedback. I don't even know if they work or not. They probably don't even. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
