From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva•net>
To: "Timothy A. Seufert" <tas@mindspring•com>,
<linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: MacOS X and yaboot wars.
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:16:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19340818034744.27131@192.168.1.10> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v04220800b5f21601b44d@[10.0.0.42]>
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>Interestingly enough, I noticed this tidbit in their BootX script:
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>Implying that they may be doing something with ext2 support.
You "tidbit" was empty ;)
They have indeed ext2 support in their "BootX". They have ELF support.
They have almost everything needed to boot the Linux kernel as well. I
need to implement the necessary support in the kernel itself to get it
working.
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>The only major problem I've got is that whenever I boot plain old
>MacOS by itself, it ruthlessly deblesses the MacOS X partition,
>rendering it unable to boot. I have to use System Disk if I want to
>boot into MacOS X again, and since it blows away my boot-device
>setting I have to force the machine into OF to set it again if I want
>to use the ofboot boot menu. Annoying, but not a new problem.
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next parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-23 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <v04220800b5f21601b44d@[10.0.0.42]>
2000-09-23 10:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2000-09-23 20:23 ` MacOS X and yaboot wars Timothy A. Seufert
2000-09-23 20:41 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] <20000921214002.N30638@plato.local.lan>
2000-09-22 16:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-09-23 1:54 ` Ethan Benson
[not found] ` <39CFE49F.DB1E05EE@noos.fr>
2000-09-25 22:54 ` Ethan Benson
2000-09-26 8:10 ` Michael Schmitz
2000-09-26 8:48 ` Ethan Benson
2000-09-26 12:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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