Subject: Re: BootX

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:50:56 +1100

On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 19:48 -0600, kevin diggs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This would require quik, right? I went to penguinppc.org and tried to
> get the latest BootX and quik but the links are dead. Do you know
> where the latest versions are?

That link still works:

Oops... typing FAIL :-)

I meant:

http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/quik/

However, it's possible that distros like debian have done more changes to it.

Another option is to netboot a zImage directly, which works if it's not
too big.

Cheers,
Ben.

> kevin
> 
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 13:26 -0600, kevin diggs wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Anyone familiar with BootX? Could my problems with the 8600 be related
> >> to some interaction with BootX?
> >
> > It's possible. Have you tried using OF booting instead ? The 8600 should
> > be cable to boot off SCSI or netboot COFF images.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ben.
> >
> >