On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:48:40PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Um, yeah, that must be what I meant. Actually, what I meant is > this: the docs constantly talk about booting the rescue floppy for > this that and the other. But the "rescue" floppy for the powerpc > port is an ext2 file system, and doesn't boot at all on old world > macs, and I just assumed that it must be for new world macs. If > not, then the rescue floppy image is a complete hoax for powerpc.
the rescue floppy has only one purpose on powerpc, and that is to provide the kernel image that is installed in the `install OS and kernel modules' step. the bootable rescue floppy for oldworld macs is the hfs-boot.img (or whatever its called). > Maybe it is anyway. Obviously the constant references to the rescue > floppy in the docs are because the docs are just recycled i386 docs, > which is fine, but really, there should be something that says that > there is no real rescue floppy for powerpc. At least, there isn't a there is one, boot-hfs.img, except its broken in current boot floppies... there is no boot floppy for newworlds since no newworld has a floppy drive. > single floppy that boots to a prompt, unless you count "Insert root > file system floppy now and hit return". that is exactly how x86 rescue floppies work. > So what I'm saying is that if you have an old world mac, the docs > and the install procedure are quite broken, and yes, I've already > volunteered to fix them. One thing at a time, though. unless someone figures out how to fix the oldworld boot floppies im not sure there is a point in documenting them :( > You lucky newworld macs can just boot from the CD. Sigh. yup, newworlds actually have a implementation of OF that works (for the most part). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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