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Re: Help an idiot



On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 05:29:49AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > I appreciate you help though.  It just seems weird that loading the wrong 
> > version of yaboot managed to kill/trigger something.  Maybe I should send a 
> > mail to Olaf about it and see what the yaboot.chrp actually does.
> 
> why i recommend only using official mainline yaboot.  currently the
> only distro version of yaboot i approve is debian's.

in fact i bet that yaboot.chrp is the one with the IBM CHRP .note
section, which is VERY incompatible with Apple OF, using it could
result in the bootrom being overwritten, which would result in the
exact symtoms your experiencing, and have no recourse other then a
reburn of the bootrom by Apple.

exactly why one should only use mainline yaboot, where the IBM stuff
is only handled by ybin, not the user who makes mistakes.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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