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Re: iMac kernel?



On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 09:12:18PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On 15/11/99 David Welton wrote:

> >Looking for a kernel image to netboot an iMac with...

> i don't think there is one, iMac (and any colored mac) OF requires a
> header in the elf note section, without which OF will barf, the
> NetBSD kernel is OF bootable so all it really would take is figuring
> out what the note needs to have and add one to a linux kernel...

Interesting...  Well, then, I *still* need a kernel to try.  Does
anyone have a standard config for an iMac with a recent kernel?

> anyone want to add ext2fs support to poof (Prisoner Of OpenFirmware)
> ?  it will apparently boot linux kernels from OF but only if they
> are on a OF readable partition, yuk...

I don't mind using an HFS partition or something, just as long as
there is no MacOS on it.

Thanks,
-- 
  David N. Welton -+- davidw@prosa.it -+- http://www.efn.org/~davidw  


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