From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:41:16 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Ethan Benson Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Setting up yaboot Message-ID: <20000406144116.B26555@suse.de> References: <200004040459.XAA03713@lists.linuxppc.org> <38EA7D15.C453ED94@uncc.edu> <38EACD97.113001FE@dana.ucc.nau.edu> <20000405083212.B7710@suse.de> <20000405041655.B421@plato.localdomain.local> <20000406133706.D10753@suse.de> <20000406043450.B2099@plato.localdomain.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20000406043450.B2099@plato.localdomain.local> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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... ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/