Re: [YABOOT] Preliminary ofpath with 2.6 kernel support NEEDS TESTING

2004-03-22 Thread digger vermont
Hello Ethan, The new ofpath gives the same dir's for 2.4.25 and 2.6.4. It works fine to boot linux and macosx on my powerbook. I didn't try a cd. I never had any problems though and yaboot.conf used /dev/xxx statements to begin with: boot=/dev/hda9 device=hd: partition=11 root=/dev/hda1

Re: [YABOOT] Preliminary ofpath with 2.6 kernel support NEEDS TESTING

2004-03-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:35, Ethan Benson wrote: > * You must have 2.6.4 or newer, previous versions lack necessary > sysfs information. Isn't 2.6.3 enough ? > * You must have sysfs mounted (normally on /sys, but ofpath should be > able to detect where its mounted). > > * You must still hav

[YABOOT] Preliminary ofpath with 2.6 kernel support NEEDS TESTING

2004-03-21 Thread Ethan Benson
Hello, As many are painfully aware ofpath in current yaboot does not function correctly under 2.6 systems, worse case it gives out bogus paths therefore causing the system to fail to boot. I have preliminary changes in current development version of yaboot which fixes ofpath to support 2.6.4 and