> By default newfs will make a file system which the installer and booter
> won't reliably work with. It'll work some of the time, but not be
> reliable.

BTW, if anyone's looking for a way to contribute, helping Nigel out with
improving the booter would certainly be cool.  Nigel's doing well, but
I expect he wouldn't turn any contributions down.  There are a couple of
things I'd like to see:

	1) Support for BOOTP/NFS/TFTP kernel loading via MacTCP and/or
	   Open Transport.

	2) Updates to handle the latest filesystems.

One way to get some of this might be:

	3) Support for a two-stage boot--put a boot block in the
	   filesystem, enough information to load that into a boot block
	   at the head of the partition, and just use that to load the
	   boot loader.

An advantage to #3 is that it would allow an easier transition to a
native loader, if that's possible to write.  It might also make a
booter extension easier to write.

So, anyone looking for a cool project?  ;-)

-allen