[haiku] Re: Booting Haiku PPC
- From: "Samir Gartner" <jigzat@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:13:59 -0500
2008/11/30 François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
> > Here is the link to the zipped haiku ppc image:
> > http://www.steekr.com/n/50-17/share/LNK45054933049abffe7/
> >
> > I do not have a PPC so I can not test it out. Just for fun, feel free
> > to
> > try it out yourselves and see how it works.
>
> The image by itself isn't bootable.
>
> For now you need to jam haiku-boot-cd-ppc to build an HFS/ISO image
> containing the bootloaders.
>
> OpenFirmware doesn't know how to read BFS anyway.
>
> >
> > What I found interesting is that 7765 targets were built. Compared
> > to x86 gcc4 haiku image which is somewhere around 9600. Not bad.
>
> That's because some drivers are x86 only.
>
> François.
>
>
Let me get this straight.
1. Build haiku-ppc.image
1. Copy the haiku.image into a partition
3. Build haiku-boot-cd-ppc
4. boot from the CD into the Haiku partition?
Am I getting it right? or Haiku-ppc wont even work that way?
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