From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Setting up yaboot
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:41:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000406144116.B26555@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000406043450.B2099@plato.localdomain.local>
On Thu, Apr 06, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 01:37:06PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > I will update the suseboot.hqx today, it includes more funny AppleScript
> > files for automate the setup process. SCSI Booting is still an issue,
> > the only way is to boot directly into yaboot. It works here on many
> > differnt machines.
> > Why should ELF loading not work?
>
> elf booting works so long as you don't try to call the yaboot file by
> its type (hd:,\\:tbxi) for some bizzare reason OF barfs if a tbxi file
> is not a CHRP script. just for kicks go open a MacOSROM file in a
> text editor to see how they worked around this. (about 80 lines of
> nasty Forth code)
Ok, our os-chooser looks like hd:9,\\yaboot and this way it works.
Gruss Olaf
--
$ man 1 current_release
BUGS
Users never read manuals...
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[not found] ` <38EA7D15.C453ED94@uncc.edu>
2000-04-05 0:27 ` kernel args with miboot Olaf Hering
2000-04-05 5:22 ` Setting up yaboot Tim Wojtulewicz
2000-04-05 6:32 ` Olaf Hering
2000-04-05 8:34 ` Tim Wojtulewicz
2000-04-05 12:16 ` Ethan Benson
2000-04-06 11:37 ` Olaf Hering
2000-04-06 12:34 ` Ethan Benson
2000-04-06 12:41 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2000-04-06 13:23 ` Mark Steer
2000-04-06 13:40 ` Ethan Benson
2000-04-06 14:27 ` Mark Steer
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