On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:

  puetzk6715@uni.edu mentioned that OF has filesystem support, so quik 
would not be needed and OF could be configured to boot the kernel 
directly.  I responded that this approach would require a separate 
ISO, HFS, HFS+, or FAT filesystem either in a /boot partition or the 
entire root partition would have to be formatted in those formats.  I 
mentioned that I do not like the idea of having to maintain non ext2 
filesystems to support my kernel. I also mentioned the following 
arguments for retaining and improving quik:

I have a FAT /boot partition on my CHRP box for this purpose.

At 16:16 -0800 28/7/99, Ethan Benson wrote:

quoted

well one reason that would be good to have quik around is quik makes 
setting up kernel images much easier then mucking around in OF 
(something people seem to have a problem with given all the 
slobbering over BootX) and quik could be given the same security and 
password controls that LILO has, with OF being totally unprotectable 
it is difficult to prevent someone from booting linux into single 
user mode, if the only way to enter single user mode was by passing 
'single' at the quik prompt then quik can be set to ask a passwd 
when arguments are given (just like restricted lilo)

Decent OF implementations allow to set a password.

The question arise whether even the latest Apple implementations of OF are
decent. Do they have a decent `see' implementation these days?
I could completely reverse engineer my OF by using `see', if I'd want to...

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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