Example miboot on new world rom problem

[jcarr at mail.linuxppc.org]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:57:21AM -0600, jcarr at mail.linuxppc.org wrote:
> >
> > Some new ibook I think. I get the same behavior on the iMac DV. Startup
> > disk doesn't change the boot-device value on there. Instead, it loads the
>
> thats insane, probably a bug in apple's startup disk control panel...

Tell me about it. :)

> > first TBXI file from the first HFS partition it finds. Then the MacOS ROM
> > finds out that "LinuxPPC Boot" is the name of the partition to boot and
> > then continues...
> >
> > Thus miboot is loaded on a new world rom machine.
> >
> > This is the reason I think either:
> >
> > 1) yaboot needs the code from pmac_support.c (aka SetPRAMBoot )
> >
> > 2) We'll have to write a new startup disk control panel( like system disk)
>
> or 3)  setup the correct type of bootstrap for the current type of
> machine.  then you don't have any of this nonsense.

OK - I'll take a look at the current incarnation
Jeff


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