On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Ben Zeller wrote:

> 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.

Yes, it does.  We're recommending using BootX with MkLinux for problem
systems.  Note, however, that the MkLinux support patches aren't in the
main line BootX sources yet because Ben H. wanted to fix some issues that
they caused in a few cases before incorporating them.  Anyway, I'm not
sure if any of those patches were important for NuBus in general or not,
but I suspect not.


David