Re: booting a kernel through open firmware.

2002-09-07 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 09:58:20AM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > > > The instructions for using yaboot are in the manual (link in my .sig). > Thanks! > OpenFirmware is not a boot loader; yaboot was designed to bridge the > gap between OF and the kernel

Re: booting a kernel through open firmware.

2002-09-07 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 09:58:20AM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > A while back I recall reading somewhere that it is > possible to boot a linux kernel directly from OF without > using yaboot. I actually did this once myself but lost > my record of it. I think I could use yaboot from say OS 9 >

booting a kernel through open firmware.

2002-09-07 Thread Fred Heitkamp
A while back I recall reading somewhere that it is possible to boot a linux kernel directly from OF without using yaboot. I actually did this once myself but lost my record of it. I think I could use yaboot from say OS 9 but I would like to figure this out anyway. I've looked around on the net