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. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
