From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-Reply-To: <20000329155834.A30559@suse.de> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:50:16 +0200 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: LinuxPPC and Pismo Powerbook Message-Id: <20000329185016.026926@mailhost.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, Mar 29, 2000, Olaf Hering wrote: >I have the Finder from MiBoot.smi, I changed the type/creator to >FNDR/MACS. The System is the same from MiBoot, unchanged. There is a >faked RomFile = yaboot and its .conf. Thats all. > >You have to move the Finder file out of that folder and move it back >onto the closed folder icon and it is bootable. All you have to do now >is to open the control panel Startup volume and you are done. > >I don't see the problem. What we really need is an app that creates the >os-chooser file, what we need is the partition number and the path to a >bootable SCSI device. I could do that from the Linux side via a bootable >CD, but it would be nice to do it with a Mac application. The good news is that I have the algorithm for writing to NVRAM on new machines. That means that I'll be able to make a version of nvsetenv (or nvtool) that works on all supported macs, probably this week-end. There's still the problem of figuring out the correct OF path however. Note that in my latest trees (and in bk 2.3.x), I've changed ide-pmac.c to set it's own interface type so that /proc returns "mac-io" instead of generic IDE. This should help differenciate the mac-io built-in IDE and the CMD646 on B&W G3. Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/