Subject: Re: Contradiction?
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Michael Wolfson <mw@blobulent.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/05/2001 00:54:56
At 2:26 AM -0400 7/5/01, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

:)On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:56:01PM -0700, Michael Wolfson wrote:
:)> It's not a typo.  The kernel (not encapsulated in a filesystem) must be on
:)> the same partition as ofwboot.xcf, but the kernel (encapsulated in a
:)> filesystem) must be on the same partition as ofwboot.xcf.
:)
:)I read that three times and it still didn't make sense.
:)
:)Did you mean to say, "the kernel (encapsulated in a filesystem) need
:)not be on the same partition as ofwboot.xcf"?

Correct.

:)> Ah, but there is a better way!  We need to import BootX from Darwin.
:)
:)Yeah, or yaboot.
:)
:)Lots of people *talk* about that... ;^>

Yeah, but yabook AFAIK is OF 3 only.  We need to support all models.

  -- MW