Re: Is there a way to use Linux on the E450 ?

On 2006-09-16, Josh McKee <jtmckee@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why? You just said that 99% of the time the OBP is used to specify boot
device and do a "probe-scsi-all" to find devices. What limitation are
you running into with the BIOS?

To avoid nasty bootloaders like grub? For the pleasant interface, which
was clearly listed as the biggest day to day advantage of the OBP over
the PC BIOS in my previous post?

Also, 99% of the time everything's peachy. Absolutely fine, no hassles,
no worries, no need to use any functionality. The remaining 1% of the
time the diagnostics and features are damn handy to have.

Listen, given your tone I figure you're a PC guy. That's fine, and I
never thought the PC BIOS sucked before I used something better. If you
want to really dig through everything that sucks about PCs there's a lot
to work through. Let's just settle for the fact that the OBP is better
and doesn't cost anything, and the only reason PCs have stuck with the
BIOS concept is the legacy requirements of Windows. Hence Apple went
with EFI for their intel architecture systems, although I'm surprised
they didn't stick with Open Firmware.



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Andre

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