ide_dmaproc - YaBoot

Benjamin Herrenschmidt bh40 at calva.net
Sun May 28 23:52:38 EST 2000


On Sun, May 28, 2000, Henning Loeser <Henning.Loeser at Physik.Uni-
Marburg.DE> wrote:

>What I found seems to have been related to not using yaboot. As I have a
>'old 7500' with MacOS8.1 I thought BootX would be just fine. But maybe
>not. Can I use yaboot on my machine? The WebPages are not very clear on
>that part. BenH's site states that yaboot is onbly for 'NewWorld' macs,
>but Eric's FAQ states that yaboot is for 'NewWorld' macs, but users of
>earlier machines should consider switching if they encounter odd problems
>...
>
>Well I do encounter strange Problems ...
>
>So should I go through the hassel of installing yaboot?

Currently, yaboot will only work on "newworld" type machines. You won't
be able to use it on a 7500. Can you veryfy that bus master is correctly
enabled for your card in the PCI command register ?)

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