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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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  reply	other threads:[~2000-04-06 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200004040459.XAA03713@lists.linuxppc.org>
     [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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