Wow. Thanks. So the file format is basically like that of lilo or at least close to it?
To set MacOS up with lilo, it would something like this? other = /dev/hda1 table = /dev/hda label = MacOS On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:09:25AM +0000, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: > > Not really, quik != bootx > > > > Where can I find some docs on quik? Does it allow me to boot without > > having macos? I'd love to remove MacOS, as it crashes more than windows. > > yes quik does not require macos, it is a real OpenFirmware bootloader. > > to configure quik setup a /etc/quik.conf something like this: > > timeout=20 > partition=2 > > image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.17 > label=linux > root=/dev/hda2 > read-only > > image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.0-test9 > label=test > root=/dev/hda2 > read-only > > do not point image= entries at symlinks, this does not work reliably > with quik it appears (however all my experience is second hand, over > irc, email etc, i have no oldworld machines to work with) > > partition= should be the partition number of your root partition, > basically the number in the /dev filename, ie: /dev/hda3 == partition=3. > > after you have your /etc/quik.conf run /sbin/quik then change the > OpenFirmware boot-device variable to your hard disk, you can find this > out like so: > > ofpath /dev/hda > > add a 0 to the end of the output from ofpath, so say you got /pci/blah/@0: > you would use /pci/blah/@0:0 > > ofpath is in the yaboot package, you will need the one out of > proposed-updates. > > nvsetenv works like so > > nvsetenv boot-device '/pci/blah/@0:0' > > reboot your machine and pray to the Holy Penguin that it will work ;-) > (oldworld OF is rather broken and quik suffers from this) > > note however that many oldworld machines cannot display OpenFirmware > console on your monitor, so you have to use a serial terminal to see > the quik boot: prompt. if you machine is capable of displaying to the > monitor you can *usually* enable this by running: > > nvsetenv output-device screen > nvsetenv input-device keyboard > > input-device should always work, so you could probably enter quik > commands blind if need be, im not sure on that. some machines also > don't have a valid screen alias so you need to find the real OF path > to your video hardware, i can't really help you there. (wonder around > /proc/device-tree/) > > if all works well and you are satisfied that quik will work to your > satisfaction you can delete all your macos partitions along with all > those useless driver partitions littering up the partition table. > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ >
