From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 07:38:14 -0900 From: Ethan Benson To: jcarr@mail.linuxppc.org Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Example miboot on new world rom problem Message-ID: <20001109073814.A4577@plato.local.lan> References: <19341004061114.22300@192.168.1.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3" In-Reply-To: ; from jcarr@mail.linuxppc.org on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:57:21AM -0600 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:57:21AM -0600, jcarr@mail.linuxppc.org wrote: >=20 > 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... >=20 > Thus miboot is loaded on a new world rom machine. >=20 > This is the reason I think either: >=20 > 1) yaboot needs the code from pmac_support.c (aka SetPRAMBoot ) >=20 > 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. =20 --=20 Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3-- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/