On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> Hmmm.  You're talking about a HFS partition on a floppy?  I was 
> talking about a HFS partition on a hard disk under OF 1.0.5.  I'll 
> have to try a HFS floppy this way.  Since there *is* some HFS code in 
> OF 1.0.5 there must be some kind of HFS media that it understands if 
> it really can't grok HFS hard disks.

1.0.5 is weird.. I thought the Linux folks had this part working..

> The floppy part of my comment related to DOS floppies.

Understood.

> So in theory one could update installboot to read the existing map 
> and reinstall it with a usable bootxx?  I hate to subscribe to NIH, 
> but that seems easier than figuring out a Linux boot utility so I can 
> submit patches to it.

Ideally, I think it'd be cool to do both. We should fix installboot (at
the very least to not kill Apple partition maps), but BootX would be cool
too. It's author has offered to help with it. :-)

Take care,

Bill