Hi, On Saturday 30 December 2006 07:33, Rick Thomas wrote: > your machine won't boot til you re-key the options. I find this > prospect enough of a potential PITA that I strongly recommend the > fourth option. > > The fourth and final boot loader option is MacOS-9 with a simple > little extension called BootX (This is *not* the same BootX as you > may be using to get your G3 to run MacOS-X. This BootX was written > by Benjamin Herrenschmidt, who does most of the heavy lifting porting > work for Linux on PowerPC hardware. (He also wrote miboot.)
Please not that Benjamin recommends not to use bootX if possible: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/07/msg00017.html Bootx is mostly useful if you also want to boot mac os <=9, which is a even more rare usecase nowadays then running these machines at all :) If you only run linux, go with quik. (And for the troubles Rick mentiones, have miboot floppies ready (available at http://layer-acht.org/d-i-miboot/) and write down the steps needed to configure OF properly for your machine. And while you're at it, share those steps :) regards, Holger
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