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Re: linux kernel on HFS+ volume



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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