On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Leigh Brown wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven said: > > My version of Open Firmware (from Firmworks) didn't like the yaboot loader > > and kept rebooting with the message `rebooting with the correct settings > > for this client program' (or something like that), until I disconnected > > the disk and it couldn't find the boot loader anymore. > > Interesting. Can you send the output of "printenv" to me, please? Also,
If the device tree is sufficient, you can get it at http://home.tvd.be/cr26864/Linux/PPC/DeviceTree.html > can the longtrail boot from CD's? Does it use the same disk format as > RS/6000's to do so? Should work, as long as you have a supported file system on it (e.g. ISO9660). I never tried booting from CD, but I once did an `ls' on a CD, and it worked. So far I only booted from floppies, SCSI disks, and IDE disks (all from a file in a FAT partition). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
