From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
To: jcarr@mail.linuxppc.org
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Example miboot on new world rom problem
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 07:38:14 -0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001109073814.A4577@plato.local.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011090829230.1582-100000@jcarr.linuxppc.org>; from jcarr@mail.linuxppc.org on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:57:21AM -0600
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On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:57:21AM -0600, jcarr@mail.linuxppc.org wrote:
>
> Some new ibook I think. I get the same behavior on the iMac DV. Startup
> disk doesn't change the boot-device value on there. Instead, it loads the
thats insane, probably a bug in apple's startup disk control panel...
> first TBXI file from the first HFS partition it finds. Then the MacOS ROM
> finds out that "LinuxPPC Boot" is the name of the partition to boot and
> then continues...
>
> Thus miboot is loaded on a new world rom machine.
>
> This is the reason I think either:
>
> 1) yaboot needs the code from pmac_support.c (aka SetPRAMBoot )
>
> 2) We'll have to write a new startup disk control panel( like system disk)
or 3) setup the correct type of bootstrap for the current type of
machine. then you don't have any of this nonsense.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2000-11-09 14:57 ` Example miboot on new world rom problem jcarr
2000-11-09 16:38 ` Ethan Benson [this message]
2000-11-09 23:05 ` jcarr
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2000-11-09 17:12 ` jcarr
2000-11-09 18:41 ` Joseph P. Garcia
2000-11-10 2:28 ` Ethan Benson
2000-11-10 22:53 ` jcarr
2000-11-11 1:00 ` Ethan Benson
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