Linux on Mol - invalid device

[Sven Luther]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:02:44AM +0100, Samuel Rydh wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:11:56PM -0500, David Bélanger wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to run Linux in Mol.  I got it to boot yaboot and
> > I can see the yaboot prompt, but I get msgs like:
> > hd:15,/boot/vmlinux: Unable to open file, Invalid device
> > for both Gentoo and Debian.
> 
> Yes, this is because yaboot in MOL can only access the virtual disk
> which maps individual files to files in the linux filesystem.
> 
> I've been working on OpenBIOS, and with this more complete open firmware,
> it is (or will be) possible to yaboot (and the kernel) directly
> from the harddisk.

That sounds cool indeed.

Friendly,

Sven Luther