| Yaboot update |
[Jan. 4th, 2008|01:19 pm] |
It's taken me some time since I moved in to the new place to setup my test environment again, it's not ideal as I don't have as much ppc hardware as I used to but it's a start. The morning was spent getting dhcp setup, and ensuring neboot worked end to end with the iBook. Once that was done I could test yaboot git HEAD using netboot.
Some of the recent features are really useful, I love being able to netboot to test the netboot code, then do
device=hd partition=2 filename=yaboot.conf
To boot off the hard disk. The use of the initrd= to load an alternate initrd from the command line is an improvement I've wanted for a long time and is great. It's also a good start to adding multiple initramfs images.
There is also the bootonce feature which I've not really played with in anger, as I tend to do most of my yaboot testing via netboot, which is even easier now we support larger images. |
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| yaboot |
[Aug. 17th, 2007|04:34 pm] |
yaboot 1.3.14 is released
http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/
Once my Fedora account is sorted I'll update there.
Many nice things for enterprise ppc users - bootonce, pSeries netbooting, user confs, pxelinux style netbooting. |
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