On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 01:37:05PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > furthermore, this is just ridiculous. GNU/Linux is NOT a macos > > application, its an operating system, a proper operating system needs > > a proper installation which means repartitioning. > > > > if you can't handle that you shouldn't be using it, period. > > > > in short, stop whining. > > Heh, Ethan, you are beeing an asshole here ;) And OS X is a lot less > shitty in that regard than OS 9 was. does not change the fact that linux is not a macos application, and shouldn't be treated as such. > Actually, there is interest in rooting Linus in a subdirectory of > an existing OS X install, for various reasons, and that either > for booting a native Linux, or running linux within MOL under > OS X (but in this case, hostfs would be used). again, ill never support such a configuration in yaboot. yaboot requires a bootstrap partition, and always will. your free to use prom-libc to write a bootloader of your own suited to such garbage. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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