Subject: Re: can't load linux from OF anymore (who is adler?)
From: Maurice van Steensel (mvanstee@baserv.uci.kun.nl)
Date: Thu Aug 24 2000 - 14:12:50 MDT
On 24-08-2000 at 13:57, christopher.murtagh@wcg.mcgill.ca wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Bryan Stillwell wrote:
> >I don't know how much this might help you, but for me on my Dual G4/450
> >I use ``boot hd:2,\\yaboot'' where 2 is the HFS partition (/dev/hda2)
> >with the yaboot.conf file on it. When you update the kernel, you also
> >have to make sure yaboot.conf has everything setup correctly before you
> >reboot or you'll run into problems. I believe ybin might be able to
> >help out with this situation, but I haven't checked it out yet.
>
> !!!! Does this mean that YDL will now boot on the dual processor machines?
> I have a 450DP and 500DP that are literally just sitting in the box until
> YDL will boot on them! I've been checking the YDL site for the last couple
> of weeks waiting for a DP announcement. Please tell me it is so and what I
> need to do to get them to boot.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
> --
>
> Christopher Murtagh
> Webmaster / Web Communications Group
> McGill University
> Montreal, Quebec
> Canada
>
>
AFAIK Linux boots 'n all on an MP machine. It just doesn't use both processors
is all. For that you need to compile a SMP kernel.
Maurice
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