From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Henning Loeser , Subject: Re: ide_dmaproc - YaBoot Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 15:52:38 +0200 Message-Id: <20000528135238.30201@192.168.1.10> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sun, May 28, 2000, Henning Loeser wrote: >What I found seems to have been related to not using yaboot. As I have a >'old 7500' with MacOS8.1 I thought BootX would be just fine. But maybe >not. Can I use yaboot on my machine? The WebPages are not very clear on >that part. BenH's site states that yaboot is onbly for 'NewWorld' macs, >but Eric's FAQ states that yaboot is for 'NewWorld' macs, but users of >earlier machines should consider switching if they encounter odd problems >... > >Well I do encounter strange Problems ... > >So should I go through the hassel of installing yaboot? Currently, yaboot will only work on "newworld" type machines. You won't be able to use it on a 7500. Can you veryfy that bus master is correctly enabled for your card in the PCI command register ?) ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/