On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 02:24:27AM -0400, SR, ESC wrote: > Le mer 2005-08-17 a 02:05:14 -0400, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:51:53AM -0400, SR, ESC wrote: > > > > Yep, but nobody came forward and did so. This should h&ave been > > > > mentioned in > > > > the errata though at least. > > > > > > there's people who did for woody, but they feel that they were > > > overlooked and hurt from that, and therefore didn't pitch in, and i'm > > > no coder, i'm more bofh. maybe i can get him to help, and not do > > > "everything". > > > > That is pure bullshit, i have been asking for help on miboot since over a > > year > > befor the release, and only a few cared to help there, as the archives of > > debian-boot will show you.Who are those supposed people anyway ? Ethan > > probably ? Well, i had to battle during 6 month tro get him to accept > > theamiga > > partitioning support in yaboot, and from what i understood, he wanted us to > > do > > it his true right wxay and nothing else. > > oh yeh. i was just relaying what he said to me, that's all. please > don't shoot the messenger :). well, it's not really relevant, we can > do it ourselves then.
Hehe, ... > > > > The current only way to boot an oldworld in a free manner is to drop to > > > > the > > > > firmware and boot the vmlinuz-coff.initrd from it. > > > > > > hmm, do you have some reference docs to do that? that looks > > > potentially rather interesting. > > > > You have to drop into the firmware. Docs may probably be found on apple site > > for that, but the way i know involves a serial cable. > > oh, ok, so it's just a command in OF? so i could do this from CLI in > OF, anywhere. doesn't have to be serial =) (although there are > distinct advantages to that). yep. Ideally you would netboot the kernel with something like : boot enet:,vmlinuz-coff.initrd notsure about the exact syntax though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
