Subject: Re: CD booting info wanted
To: None <mw@blobulent.com>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/07/2000 21:21:21
> 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.

While I managed to boot ofwboot.xcf from an ISO image, I didn't find any
way to boot a kernel from that same CD. May have been pilot error...
(OF: 2.0.4, 4400/200 beige 603 system).


Martin