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On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 20:03 -0600, kevin diggs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The link:
> 
> http://www.shiner.info/?files/Yellow%20Dog%20Linux%204/quik
> 
> to download the latest source does not seem to have anything useful???

Ah right. 2.0e is still there tho. Try to have a look at what's in
distros like debian or genpoo..

Cheers,
Ben.

> kevin
> 
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 19:48 -0600, kevin diggs wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This would require quik, right? I went to penguinppc.org and tried to
> >> get the latest BootX and quik but the links are dead. Do you know
> >> where the latest versions are?
> >
> > That link still works:
> >
> > Oops... typing FAIL :-)
> >
> > I meant:
> >
> > http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/quik/
> >
> > However, it's possible that distros like debian have done more changes to it.
> >
> > Another option is to netboot a zImage directly, which works if it's not
> > too big.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ben.
> >
> >> kevin
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >> <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 13:26 -0600, kevin diggs wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> Anyone familiar with BootX? Could my problems with the 8600 be related
> >> >> to some interaction with BootX?
> >> >
> >> > It's possible. Have you tried using OF booting instead ? The 8600 should
> >> > be cable to boot off SCSI or netboot COFF images.
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > Ben.
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> >
> >
> >