On Aug 19 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:00:44AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > > Humm, this is indeed a problem. :-( The non-freeness of miboot is > > a secondary problem in face of not having a way to install the > > operating system on the box. :-( > > The kernel don't fit anyway,
That's not true. The method I currently use to boot my pmac is to compile a brand new kernel (right now, 2.6.13-rc6-mm1, the bleeding edge) and it fits into a floppy without any problems (and with about 100KB left). I don't even use a initial ramdisk, which would make things even easier, as far as we are talking about space on the floppy (since I could perfectly move things there, but I feel that it is too much trouble with my own machine). I just grabbed the woody hfs boot floppy and replaced the kernel with mine (and edited the parameters passed by the System file). Then, everything else worked. In fact, I now have learnt how to make my machine boot in OF with the use of the monitor and now I can see the quik prompt, but quik seems unable to boot with kernels that work the floppy disk method. > and you can always use the sarge miboot floppies, If I recall correctly, there were one of the release candidates of sarge that didn't have floppies working. I just grabbed the woody floppies and proceeded with its install and later upgrade to testing. I never looked back then. > or older daily builds and then upgrade, or use bootx with the normal > installation, or even boot the .cofg kernel from OF directly. Using bootx is out of question, due to space limitation of my hard drive (and I am not even mentioning the use of a non-free MacOS install). Didn't know that OF could boot .coff kernels directly, though. I will investigate that. Regards, -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
