On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Michael Wolfson wrote:

> At 8:03 PM -0400 10/5/00, Todd Vierling wrote:
> 
> :)I've been browsing the list archives, and can't find a straight
> :)answer.  What's needed on an ISO CD to provide a bootable system, and what
> :)kind of boot environment does it use at that point?
> :)
> :)(Context:  I'd like to get the 1.5 CD release to boot directly on macppc.)
> 
> That'd be (really* cool.
> 
> AFAIK, there can be two approaches:
> Somehow figure out how to set the boot sectors to load either ofwboot.xcf
> or ofwboot.elf depending on which OF version.  I think the mkhybrid author
> was working on this a little.  Try contacting him.  I don't know if this
> method will work for OF 1.0.5 because it seems to load the MacOS boot ROM
> before looking on the CD-ROM for boot information.
> 
> Just put both ofwboot.elf and ofwboot.xcf in the root level of the ISO
> image and have the user manually enter Open Firmware and type a command to
> boot from it.  All OF versions support ISO 9660 format filesystems, and can
> thus load ofwboot.* directly.  My understanding was that ofwboot.* can load
> a kernel from an ISO filesystem.

I have had no success with my power mac 7500 with 603e processor upgrade.  

I have 'ofwboot.elf' 'ofwboot.xcf' and 'netbsd.macppc' in the root level
of the ISO image, I've just never figured out what to type at OF to make
it boot from the CD.

-Dan