BootX

kevin diggs diggskevin38 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 22 13:03:02 EST 2011


Hi,

The link:

http://www.shiner.info/?files/Yellow%20Dog%20Linux%204/quik

to download the latest source does not seem to have anything useful???

kevin

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 19:48 -0600, kevin diggs wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This would require quik, right? I went to penguinppc.org and tried to
>> get the latest BootX and quik but the links are dead. Do you know
>> where the latest versions are?
>
> That link still works:
>
> Oops... typing FAIL :-)
>
> I meant:
>
> http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/quik/
>
> However, it's possible that distros like debian have done more changes to it.
>
> Another option is to netboot a zImage directly, which works if it's not
> too big.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
>> kevin
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 13:26 -0600, kevin diggs wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Anyone familiar with BootX? Could my problems with the 8600 be related
>> >> to some interaction with BootX?
>> >
>> > It's possible. Have you tried using OF booting instead ? The 8600 should
>> > be cable to boot off SCSI or netboot COFF images.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Ben.
>> >
>> >
>
>
>
>


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