UUID boot on ieee1275 (Re: [PATCH] use UUIDs for cross-disk installs (Re: Issue with boot != root and chainloading))

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 08:37:37PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> I'm not satisfied with the current user interface of that script, but I
> couldn't think of any better way to do it back then.  If you can improve
> it that'd be much welcome.
> 
> Btw, I'm currently working on adding --prefix / uuid support to our
> ieee1275 ports.  I'll send a patch RSN.

Here it is.  For powerpc it'd need some adjustment to start.S.  Unfortunately
my patch appears to uncover a memory corruption problem somewhere else, which
I haven't managed to track down yet.

But I'd still like to know if it works on other setups.

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Robert Millan

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