On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:55:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > - miboot itself uses free-as-in-beer libraries from Apple, which are > > shipped together with the source code, so we would have to ask > > miboot's author to add an exception for them to its licensing terms, > > which he hadn't done yet, though comments in the source distribution > > seemed to indicate he's aware of the problem. > > This doesn't make miboot free, and is not really an issue, since the boot > sector is not linked, i belive, but only agregated into the same media. Same > as your bios is not linked to lilo.
I understand this, but was speaking about a different problem. IIRC miBoot itself uses a non-free library from Apple, in addition to being loaded by a non-free bootloader. > mkvmlinuz is different, it uses the already existing zImage.coff format, which > was in use before quik, yaboot or bootx where around. My understanding was that oldworld OpenFirmware were broken wrt loading such images (I can't remember where I got this impresstion, though.) Is there a way to load such an image from an old OpenFirmware? Also, does anyone expect quik to be loadable from a floppy? (ie would that work with those old broken OF's?) At the time I looked into the quik side, it seemed the only thing it missed was the ability to deduce the floppy device name from its configuration in order to be installable on a floppy, but I don't know wether this omission was deliberate or not. -- Jeremie Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
