Um, well, wait a second. There's quik and there's yaboot. The latter needs a little 800K partition, but is that so wrong? Quik for old world and yaboot for newworld powermacs. If you want to use quik, you also have to be "good." ~:^)
a Tom Rini wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:44:45PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > > I'd like to be able to simply boot off of the hard disk from with only > > an ext2 partition on the disk and nothing else. I must admit that I'm > > new to the PPC architecture so if this is already possible please let me > > know. > > Er, it's currently impossible, mostly. On OpenFirmware machines (CHRP, > PowerMac) one needs a filesystem OF can read from, such as HFS or FAT. On > APUS, there's a similar type problem. On a PReP system, you can sort of get > away with this as the kernel has to ride on a magic partition which the kernel > gets dd'ed to. The embedded world can boot from flash or whatever the board > allows. Custom 6x/7xx/74xx boards can do whatever you make the HW understand.
