On Wed, Jun 07, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > SuSE wrote an extremely obfuscated shell script to try and figure this > > > out, > > > > Cool! And SuSE's a good company that releases things like this as OSS/DFSG > > compliant, > > right? Where can I get it and test it on my machine? (Nothing obvioous on > > the web > > yes they are a well behaved Free software company AFAICS, BenH also > tells me that the obfuscated shell script is obsolete and they are > working on a more sane solution, probably involving kernel changes (to > add something useful to the /proc mess (why don't we have a /kern > instead? then leave /proc to *gasp* processes!) and a new userland > utility (i guess). (Ben just got some tidbits off irc, not much detail)
I can't solve that /proc /kern thing, its a topic for l-k. But we will have an entry in /proc that contains the path. I will start talking to the PCI guys this week. First it has to work with newworld machines. Then we will include the oldworld stuff. But not with OF path names, I would give setpramboot a try. looks good so far, but it is limited. I will refuse any discussion about quik on oldworld machines. As you wrote in a mail in this tread OF is supposed to load the System file and it is broken and brain dead. Yes, that all is true. We will place a System file somewhere and OF/Appl,ROM will find and load it. Everytime. On a dualboot machine or on a Linux only machine. In fact, it is MiBoot from the BootX Distribution. > > site, and the support database search gives nothing for "quik" or "open > > firmware".) Is > > it part of the quik rpm? There's one in: > > http://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/suse/suse/ppc/update/BETA/ > > that is probably it, i still have it around i think, i looked at there > misguided suseboot thing once, and found it there. The support database is nearly empty, for the outside world. I have some entries in german, these will be translated and be available next week. Try the same location in a few hours, there will be a generate_os_chooser.sh file. It is based on show_of_path.sh. I removed the sed call to strip the @f2000.. stuff. This should work for Ethan now. If not, just send me the temp-os-chooser file along with a copy of the output from suse_hw_info.sh. Call it with generate_os_chooser linuxbootpartition macospartition bootfolder Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...