MacOS X and yaboot wars.

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

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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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