Open Firmware booting on a Blue G3

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:
>   puetzk6715 at uni.edu mentioned that OF has filesystem support, so quik 
> would not be needed and OF could be configured to boot the kernel 
> directly.  I responded that this approach would require a separate 
> ISO, HFS, HFS+, or FAT filesystem either in a /boot partition or the 
> entire root partition would have to be formatted in those formats.  I 
> mentioned that I do not like the idea of having to maintain non ext2 
> filesystems to support my kernel. I also mentioned the following 
> arguments for retaining and improving quik:

I have a FAT /boot partition on my CHRP box for this purpose.

> At 16:16 -0800 28/7/99, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >well one reason that would be good to have quik around is quik makes 
> >setting up kernel images much easier then mucking around in OF 
> >(something people seem to have a problem with given all the 
> >slobbering over BootX) and quik could be given the same security and 
> >password controls that LILO has, with OF being totally unprotectable 
> >it is difficult to prevent someone from booting linux into single 
> >user mode, if the only way to enter single user mode was by passing 
> >'single' at the quik prompt then quik can be set to ask a passwd 
> >when arguments are given (just like restricted lilo)

Decent OF implementations allow to set a password.

The question arise whether even the latest Apple implementations of OF are
decent. Do they have a decent `see' implementation these days?
I could completely reverse engineer my OF by using `see', if I'd want to...

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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