I'll be at Ottawa for the Linux Symposium for my (real) job between 26th of june and 1st of july.

If you want to offer me a (canadian) beer, I think it's the good place. (0 comments)

EMILE 0.11 is released.

This is a minor feature enhancement release.

It introduces:
- better SCSI management (wait unit is ready)
- allow to create a bootable CDROM

You can try http://vivierlaurent.free.fr/Debian_3.1_r0a_m68k_Bin-1-boot.img

if you want to see a video showing EMILE booting Linux on SE/30 follow this link: http://emile.sourceforge.net/
(or http://vivierlaurent.free.fr/EMILE_ON_SE30.MP4)
Rescue disk has been tested on: LCII, Performa 450 (LCIII), LC475, Mac SE/30, Quadra 610, Quadra 800, Quadra 840

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My paper about the principles of bootloaders has been published in the french magazine "GNU/Linux Magazine France" #91, February 2007.

http://www.ed-diamond.com/produit.php?produit=460 (0 comments)

MARGOT 1.0 has been released this morning at 8:45 ;-)
http://vivierlaurent.free.fr/Margot.JPG (0 comments)

I'm happy to announce EMILE, my bootloader for Macintosh m68k, is now able to create bootable CD-ROM.

I've juste created an install CD-ROM for sarge.

But as it contains Apple copyrighted materials (the AppleDriver), it cannot be distributed widely.
It's only a first step, I'm working on writing a "dummy" AppleDriver of my own (a real AppleDriver is not needed for Linux... I guess)
For the moment, EMILE must extract an AppleDriver from a MacOS bootable CDROM.

But if you want to try it, you can download it from

http://vivierlaurent.free.fr/Debian_3.1_r0a_m68k_Bin-1-boot.img
(MD5: a4819b5f8fffabede499ddf52aa66728)

(if you want to create your own, take packages/binaries from http://emile.sf.net/SNAPSHOT and mail me to know how)

And Remember:

1- To be able to boot from a CD-ROM, the macintosh must have an Apple CD-ROM drive, not a pioneer, yamaha or other... only Apple.
2- All Apple drives I know are not able to manage CD-RW disk, so use a CD-R disk
(at your own risks. Personally I burnt 22 CD-R to make this development and thus gave a lot of money to music artists: because of french tax on CD-R, a CD-R costs 0,70 euros... hey, SACEM, I'm an artist too !)
3- after your test, detroy the CD because it contains Apple copyrighted materials ;-)
(Hey, Steve, could we use your materials for our debian bootable CD ?) (0 comments)