On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 01:18:06AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 10:34:14AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > > Are the boot disks going to be "ready" for the upcoming relesae of > > powerpc-potato in February (it is still February isn't it ?) ? > > Looks like it. > > > Is Yaboot required ? I assume this is the equivalent of lilo on a x86 > > machine. > > Do I "have" to allocate a 800KB HFS partition on my hard disk ? > > Booting is still up in the air. Probably the more reliable ways of > booting will want the HFS partition - yaboot and miBoot look good for > macos-free alternatives. I'm tempted to dump Quik entirely.
problem with Miboot is it still requires the kernel live on the bootstrap parition (which is setup differently then a yaboot one) teaching Miboot to load a kernel from ext2 would be ideal.. doesn't Miboot also require non-free Apple bootblock code in the 1K bootblock of the HFS partition? for newworld yaboot is working very well for me 0.5 resolved all the critcal bugs that i found.. > > Probably not. We may or may not have bootable CDs; depends how well > yaboot and miBoot are coming, and whether I or someone else has time to > make it work. We'll have a ramdisk that can be started from an > existing macos install. bootable CDs would rock, its not easy to accomplish however, in theory a small HFS partition with a CHRP script set to type tbxi and miboot as well should boot properly on all macs, but for oldworld macs you would need a non-free apple CD driver too.. and CD booting is reportedly a bit broken when you add ISO to the mix.. -- Ethan Benson
