Re: Whither multibooter?


Subject: Re: Whither multibooter?
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 12:26:27 MST


Look into miBoot instead of Multibooter or Quik. It is newer and should
work better. See ben H's web site for info.

> I know it's "unsupported," but:
>
> I'd like to boot YDL from OpenFirmware. I'm running one of the older 266
> desktop G3s, so I think I'm supposed to run Apple's Multibooter to patch OF,
> and then run ftp://devel.linuxppc.org/users/harry/fixg3.tgz, but Apple has
> yanked Multibooter from their ftp site.
>
> Is that *why* it's unsupported? Should I take this to the LinuxPPC list?
>
> I had been trying to do this using only the instructions at
> http://www.linuxppc.org/userguide/of.html and the man pages for nvsetenv, but I
> don't think that they're right anymore. The faq-o-matic seems to have the best
> information about it.
>
> Any clues?
>
> - Ben
>

Regards,
Dan

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