Subject: Why not BootX on Rev 2 G3 (New World) ??
From: Dr. David Sterling (sterling@boulder.nist.gov)
Date: Sun Jun 17 2001 - 15:12:40 MDT
> Hi. I'm running a rev 2 G3 with YDL 2 installed on a slave 30GB IDE drive.
> The installation went smoothly except the yaboot.conf file was not
> correctly generated. This seems to be the same problem reported by Sean Bittinger on
> 2001.06.08 under the title, 'yaboot help'. Yaboot complains it can't find the
> kernel.
>
> Following my natural instinct (being a shoot-from-the-hip type of dude
> sometimes) I hastily installed bootX and to my (semi-)surprise everything works fine now and
> I start YDL with the bootX extension. But this is a new world rom system so this
> shouldn't work, right?. That it works at all was only a mild surprise; I had the same
> experience on this particular machine with YDL 1.2.1 when I first installed it too.
>
> So the $50K question is, "What are the advantages of using yaboot over
> bootX?" (given that bootX works fine on my G3). I'm tempted to try Adam Had'em's
> solution for the yaboot problem, but before doing so I'd like to at least understand
> why I *should* be using yaboot (other than the YDL documentation states that with a New
> World Rom system I *must* do so).
>
> David
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