Re: OldWorld NetBootIng

[Andrei Borzenkov]

В Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:33:58 -0600
Ben Hildred <address@hidden> пишет:

> Old world macs do not work with grub.

I thought powerpc-ieee1275 platform is exactly for old world macs.

>                                       they do not have OpenFirmware,

Again, I naively thought that PowerPC macs had OpenFirmware and Intel
macs have EFI. But I may be of course completely wrong here.

>                                                                     and
> will not netboot. New world macs have OpenFirmware, should work with grub
> (I have not yet confirmed this as I have been fighting cross compile issues
> and this is not yet a priority as other boot loaders work good enough for
> now), and netboot just fine (see hildred/unboot on github for a dhcp
> configuration file that should work with all macs that can netboot).
> 
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:43 AM, PorroManoLestaOilßianco <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I am trying to make the miracle
> > to resuscitate PowerBookG4 (non-intel wow!)
> > with estimated dead too Gnoppix_LT.
> >
> > Once I put almost 5 distros, but on a NewWorld.
> >
> > This time it seems different because:
> > ~I want a secure machine so fortunately doesnt take any bootup-disc
> > ~I dont think to fix with a source-package because of dismissed
> > darwin-ports
> > ~tried BootMania but with double delusion because of sharewarin (what
> > about 1.31 and/or Fog?)
> > ~This is the ultimate uncompromised machine (see how iOs behaves with
> > torrents)
> > ~anyway I'd love an Hackintosh, but must first fix some contracts...
> >
> > Right now I am working on a virtual machine QEMU 0.9.0a89
> > and I couldn't install Gnoppix neither on a regular pc
> > if not by Morphix with consectuent error fault,
> > so Grub will not install and overall i do not know
> > how to treat the kernel argument.
> >
> > I think the only way is to make-up an html-boot-server
> > with maximum 500 mb (I can treat)
> > so to boot with my only possible option
> >
> > but my question is
> > how does BootX see netboot kernel
> >
> > is it possible to use OpenFirmware
> > or is it necessary the key-combo at the boot
> > for the elf-like console?
> >
> > I'd like to let in peace OpenFirmware
> > not to open boot to external risks.
> >
> > I wish to get on chain BootX'netconf-kernel'makeup
> >
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