On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:17, Sven Luther wrote: > > I'm not sure what the problem with quik is, actually. I've avoided > > using it because it requires messing with Open Firmware. The
> > to me, it just doesn't seem worth while spending the time on it > > given that BootX works so well for me. > > > > The Debian developers use quik (and avoid miboot and BootX) for > > I don't know about bootx, but the main problem with miboot apart from the boot > sector which needs to be reverse engineered and cleanly reimplemented, is that > you cannot compile miboot with a free toolchain on linux, and you need an > oldish version of codewarrior running on powermac. > > Nobody has really stepped up to help on either of those, despite my call for > help on this since almost a year or so. Hi Sven, Sorry I can't help here, 'cause though I'm reasonably comfortable on Linux now, I'm not a programmer so really wouldn't know where to start. Apart from that, I really like the Idea of getting quik to work, 'cause that is as far as I can see a real boot loader, not a mac partition with a mac bootloader passing things on to Linux. I haven't had the time to play with this lately so I'm using my system with bootx at the moment. Though I don't really like this aproach, sometimes you just have to choose for what works. As soon as I get things working, I'll leave a message here. Greetz, Seb.
