On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:48:02PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > Is there a particular reason why mac boot stuff can't cope with just plain
> > vmliunz ? or maybe the conversion stuff could be added to the bootloader
> > program instead of residing in the kernel ?
>
> because all of the powermac bootloaders consist entirely of cruft,
> this is something i intend to fix one way or another. right now i am
> looking at making silo arch: powerpc | sparc
>
> i really am beginning to think we should not bother including OF
> bootable images at all. its pointless since OF can't read the root
> filesystem anyway, so lets require bootloaders.
>
> booting images directly via OF is something approximatly one person
> actually does, and he can just compile his own kernel (he doesn't use
> debian anyway and if he did he wouldn't use kernel-package).
Hmmm... /me uses Debian
Yes, one day I should try yaboot on my LongTrail, booting from a msdos
partition. But I'm a bit afraid to screw my system. Last time I wanted to boot
from floppy, it no longer worked.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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