At 3:48 PM -0800 3/8/2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
>Since Linuxppc works on that machine (I think) there is obviously lots of
>material to be had over in that camp which might be of interest.  They have
>a booter utility BootX (I think) which works across all PPC architectures,
>and there has been some discussio of adapting it or something like it to
>work with port-macppc.

Last I checked, LinuxPPC does _not_ work on pre-PCI PowerMacs. 
However, MkLinux should and does.  You might want to take a look at 
their code.  I don't know if BootX handles pre-PCI powermacs either, 
but since it doesn't require open firmware, I can't imagine why not.

Good luck,

Ben