Re: Gentoo on PowerPC

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 15:59, Bryce C wrote:
> Because 1, yaboot will boot without needing a key to be held down 2,
> it's configurable, and 3, you still need a bootloader to boot the Linux
> kernel and I don't believe (fairly confidently) that OF will go that
> far, but only recognize the bootstrap partitions. The Linux icon will
> boot the (main) bootstrap partition and the OSX icon will boot OSX's
> bootstrap partition directly. Otherwise, the machine will boot the first
> bootstrap partition it encounters (which is why the Gentoo docs have you
> reorder the partitions, making the linux bootstrap hda2 instead of say
> hda12).

Agreed. Yaboot sounds like the way to go. I should be able to easily
run Gentoo full-time and then pull up the OSX operating system through
Mac-On-Linux (MOL) when I need something OSX-specific.

> I don't know how clueful the employees are when it comes to Linux on the
> hardware, but they can, and will sell you the machine. As for my idea of
> booting a LiveCD in-store, I've never tried it myself. That was just an
> idea I thought of while writing the e-mail. It won't effect the
> computer's solid-state components in any way, and will leave no residue.

I'm very familiar with booting CD-based linux distros on x86
architecture. The Apple store folks will probably be willing to play
along. We'll see.

...Kevin



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