On 8/17/05, Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:56:37PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > let me disagree with you. Since we have nothing working right now
> > > we have quite a load of code to write and test even _before_ we get
> > > to crypto and ATA subsystem. Of course in a sense that we still
> > > will not have a fully pledged distribution you are right and lack
> > > of the basic stuff like the one you mentioned will prevent us
> > > from declaring the job is done. But still one have to start walking
> > > in order to get somewhere.
> >
> > The PPC hardware we use depends on an ATA disk and we need an ATA
> > driver in order to boot.
>
> Can't you netboot with a ramdisk image like linux dies ?
I guess that should be possible too. Can you describe the Linux
netboot process in more details ? I am quite familiar with how
Solaris does netboot on SPARC and x86, but have to admit
I amnot sure how similar or different Linux netboot is on PPC
Regards,
Cyril
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
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