Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Lombard is a newworld mac. BootX works, yaboot too, but yaboot is more > reliable. Either my precompiled kernel or Paul's rsync kernel should work > fine on the Lombard with both BootX and yaboot (Paul recently merged the > necessary kernel changes for yaboot support).
I've found it less reliable on my Lombard. I have it installed on an HFS partition, configured to load Ben's ibook revision 12 kernel (the one he says I'll have to use when using yaboot). When I boot that kernel with yaboot (0.5), the kernel boots, getty spawns, and I get no cursor in text mode. I'm using atyfb for my video driver. Also, when I boot a kernel with yaboot, putting my laptop to sleep (I'm using pmud) does so permanantly--it won't wake up. I have none of these problems using BootX. Also, I can't get yaboot to load a kernel from a non-HFS partition. I thought this was why it was supposed to be cool. It complains about a bad partition type (something like MAC-PARTS), and I'm sure I have the partition number correct (hd:7,/vmlinuz). It loads kernels from HFS partitions correctly. I built yaboot with DEBUG on, and it gives me lots more information, but none of it helped me much, and I can't really cut and paste from its PROM text interface into this rxvt. :) -- Shaw Terwilliger ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
