Ok, sounds like it could work. Although I don't see where these "new" boot-floppies are located. All I see are the old stuff in disks-powerpc.
Joel Klecker wrote: > > At 08:50 -0700 1999-10-18, Matt Porter wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 05:27:10PM +0300, Petter Sundlöf wrote: > >> That sounds über-neato. > >> > >> Anyway, it does no good to me, because I have no idea how to utilize > >> PC-style floppy booting. Do I need to play with bootvars? > > > >Good question...I don't know, I'm not a Mac PowerPC person...yet. :) > > Once you can get to OF, it'd be: > 'boot fd:linux load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/ram' (I think). > > To boot with bootx, copy root.bin into the same folder as the bootx > app itself and rename it to ramdisk.image.gz, you also need the linux > kernel image, which should be placed in the 'Linux Kernels' folder; > then launch the bootx app and make sure to check the 'Use ramdisk' > checkbox. > > >>From what I've read, you don't need to play with bootvars to boot the > >HFS boot image I've made. I'd look at the LinuxPPC installation manual > >and key off of that. They give examples of boot commands for OF to boot > >an HFS floppy. I thought bootvars was just for hard drive boots. > > The problem is that most powermacs have horrid Open Firmware, and the > input-device and output-device are set to ttya (so bootvars is the > only way short of attaching a serial console to get to OF). > None of this applies to post-iMac systems, which actually do have > decent OF with sensible defaults (however, those will not boot Linux > kernels because the images lack the .note section that the new OF > requires). > > >Give me a couple weeks and I'll know more...I haven't seen many Mac people > >around here interested in getting boot images working (as evidenced by > >none contributing to powerpc boot-floppies devel). > > I think I'm the only pmac person making any boot-floppies contribution at all. > -- > Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer > <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/> > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Petter Sundlöf ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
