> I just realized in a state of shock why kernels from 2.1.127 have not been
> working for me: I have been doing it the "old way" (quik). All recent
> kernels fail to boot becuase they can not read the mac partition map. Of
> course, I have mac partition map support compiled in. I finally realized
> that this all works fine when booting from BootX. AARRGGG!!! Not only is
> this a problem for people who prefer to use quik, but it is a _MAJOR_
> problem for people who have machines that don't run MacOS, such as PReP
> and CHRP. (Perhaps these kernels work fine on non-pmac machines with Open
> Firmware, I don't have the resources to find out.)
Well, actually, OF works great. I've managed to use BootX a grand total
of maybe 6 times on my 7500, 4 installers, one to check a booting bug, and
one because it came that way. Recent kernels boot fine under OF. Hell,
the vmlinux-2.2.0-pre1 that's put up boot'ed some linuxppc.org box from OF
1st.
> So, currently Linux doesn't even work without BootX? I thought that
> "future versions of LinuxPPC would work with Open Firmware...".
They boot fine. Tried re-running quik?
> Now my choice is between 2.1.125, 2.1.24, and MacOS, until/if Linux
> ever works again from Open Firware rather than MacOS...
I'm thinking you've broken something locally. 2.1.12x, 2.1.13x and
2.2.0-preX have all OF booted here.
> I also saw a patch today which added credit to the author of BootX among
> many other things? Uhhh.... since when is BootX part of the kernel? I
He also happens to be hacking away at ADB, and done a good deal of work
inside drivers/macintosh, and on the pbg3 bays in linuxppc and helped out
on the Mk side.
--- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://dobbstown.yeti.edu/
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