iMac G5 yaboot auto-detection

Paul Sladen ubuntu at paul.sladen.org
Wed Nov 24 08:19:54 CST 2004


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:48:47PM -0500, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
> > I just got a shipment of iMac G5 (17")  [..]  I get the yaboot prompt,
> > but then it dumps to OF with an "invalid memory access" error.
> Did you type 'install-power4' at the yaboot prompt? The default won't
> work on G5 systems.

Could this be detected in the bootloader and the appropriate kernel/options
loaded automatically?

Eg. Would a patch to yaboot to allow a different default command-line---
depending on the processor---version work?

	-Paul
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