thank you very much for pretty words > > early iMacs are OldWorld > > bollocks. ALL imacs are newworld.
surprizing to be informed about that mac-oriented magazines here in japan even now teaches imac rev.a-b users to use the Boot X extention when they are to install linux yes at first i was informed that imac rev.b was newworld but many faq places told me that they don't work that way and at last you are telling me what it really is..right? > > i think i did the update when > > making 8.5.1 > 8.6 > > updating the OS does not update the firmware. oh i meant that 8.5.1>8.6 required me to do the firmware update before that process so i did but i'm not sure if that update was the last one(?) that will fix the OF-bugs so > you should install the firmware updates since they do fix bugs. but > all imacs are and always have been newworld. > > it is certainly possible there is a bug in the unpatched firmware that > is causing yaboot to fail though. i might test the booting via OF again because my firmware-updating before >8.6 was (i think) after i found OF impossible mmm..testing this will be a bout a week later at my dad place but > >It's just that I thought it was technically > > impossible to boot newworlds with bootX? > > it may boot, but its not reliable and many things break on the linux > side. if my firmware-updating turned rev.b totally-newworld the fact is that it can still at least boot linux via bootx too but it is also that many people are suggesting to quit doing that > - BootX runs after MacOS has done some basic hardware init, most notably > display, keyboard and PCI init. At least MacOS 8.6 has a bug in the PCI > resource allocation for Mach64 display adapters which results in XFree 4 > complaining about invalid PCI resources, disabling one of the Mach64 > resources and crashing the kernel. Please note that the kernel boots > fine and works fine, except for X. Rather than compiling a table yadda > yadda... yaboot is the safe choice here. Been there, done that, switched > to yaboot. maybe that's the reason windowmaker showed dirty icons ]even after i forced the video to video=atyfb:vmode:17,cmode:16 any comments for booting with option pushed? i mean using the magicboot thing in other partions system if this is not bad i'd like to choose that way thank you bollock BUYO-BUYO-IGOR--------------------------------------- SaRiGaMa's Oil Vending Orchestra http://i.am/sarigama http://mybrowser.ismad.com
