Subject: Re: Booting without MacOS (yet again)
To: Michael R. Zucca <mrz5149@acm.org>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/01/2002 09:25:29
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Michael R. Zucca wrote:

: Just a few questions:
: How did you make an FFS floppy with the MacOS boot blocks? Did you just
: start FFS after the bootblocks?

FFS has a little bit of unused space at the beginning typically reserved for
boot info.  MacOS "boot blocks" really just consist of one to two sectors
with pointers to a boot program to load (which should be a NetBSD
libsa-based boot loader, in this case).

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