[OpenBIOS] r571 - in trunk/openbios-devel: arch/ppc/qemu forth/admin

[Alexander Graf]

On 30.08.2009, at 12:13, Laurent Vivier wrote:

> Le dimanche 30 août 2009 à 11:49 +0200, Alexander Graf a écrit :
>> On 29.08.2009, at 17:43, svn at openbios.org wrote:
>>
>>> Author: laurent
>>> Date: 2009-08-29 17:43:00 +0200 (Sat, 29 Aug 2009)
>>> New Revision: 571
>>>
>>> Modified:
>>>  trunk/openbios-devel/arch/ppc/qemu/main.c
>>>  trunk/openbios-devel/forth/admin/nvram.fs
>>> Log:
>>> Replace yaboot_startup() by newworld_boot() which implements generic
>>> CHRP boot method.
>>> It finds the CHRP bootscript using the file attribute 'tbxi' and
>>> the blessed directory.
>>>
>>> This method allows to boot easily Fedora (the bitness detection is
>>> done
>>> by the script and yaboot is called with the according yaboot.conf)  
>>> but
>>> openSUSE is broken (you have to use "boot cd:,\suseboot\yaboot")
>>
>> For the lazy readers, what's the reason it worked before but breaks  
>> now?
>
> Because, originally the executed script was "ppc/bootinfo.txt":
>
> <chrp-boot>
> <description>openSuSE 11.1</description>
> <os-name>openSuSE 11.1</os-name>
> <boot-script>boot &device;:1,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm</boot-script>
> </chrp-boot>
>
> And now, using the "tbxi" attributes the executed script is
> "suseboot/os-chooser":
>
> <CHRP-BOOT>
> <COMPATIBLE>
> MacRISC MacRISC3 MacRISC4
> </COMPATIBLE>
> <DESCRIPTION>
> SuSE Linux for PowerMac
> </DESCRIPTION>
> <BOOT-SCRIPT>
> load &device;:&partition;,\suseboot\yaboot
> go
> </BOOT-SCRIPT>
> <OS-BADGE-ICONS>
> 1010
> 000000000000F8FEACF6000000000000
> ...
>
> I'm planning to implement "load" and "go" to correct this issue...

Hm, makes sense :-). It's good to see someone working on this!

Thanks a lot,

Alex