On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > I gather the default LinuxPPC kernel has CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT=y ? (at least, > > my .config had it, generated by make pmac-config and make > > menuconfig)... Is it absolutely mandatory to remove this option? > > So what exactly do we lose by turning this off? The messages will > still be made available later on, right?
what do we lose? I don't know, I don't even know what the BootX text is! :) Oh, and... cmd-opt-o-f worked. I'm now inside Open Firmware, 2.0.1: here's some output (maybe I did something wrong in quik.conf... ?) (my root partition is /dev/hda5) <greeting messages skipped> 0 > setenv boot-device ata0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:5 ok 0 > boot Second-stage QUIK loader Type l, off, d boot: l Fatal error: Unable to open filesystem Image not found... try again boot: Should my /boot have been HFS? I can't get to my quik.conf now to verify, since I can't boot, not even from CD... Not even from my miboot partition!... argh... Patrix. == http://www.patrix.org "You can have Peace, or you can have Freedom. Don't ever count on having both at the same time." - Robert A. Heinlein
