new boot procedures (Re: LinuxPPC on CDROM as an emergency boot)

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some people have looked into making vmlinux new-OF-bootable but then it
must live on an hfs[+] partition and again we have no ramdisk capability.

I'm interested in those fixes.

i've put some of the discussion on the subject and the relevant netbsd
sources online if you want to more easily browse them:
         http://web1.turbolinux.com/~brad/newboot/

the best plan of attack would be to first look at the kernel:

 - get vmlinux to boot from new OF directly
 - adapt kernel to allow for compiled-in ramdisk, as is done for prep

this allows for cdboot and a kind of hd boot, provided you have hfs[+];
then tackle quik:

 - get quik to work with new OF 
 - get quik to load ramdisks (this would be optional if we already have
   compiled-in-ramdisk support, even on older OF)

Brad
brad@pht.com | http://www.pht.com/~brad/


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