On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Bob Nestor wrote:

: I don't doubt this is true, but it makes me wonder how MacOS X loads on
: my system which has OFW 3.  There isn't anything on the HFS/HFS+ side
: that I can see, but running System Disk seems to set some variables which
: cause it to boot directly into OS X on the UFS filesystem.  Any idea how
: that works or if it would be helpful for booting NetBSD?

There are magical CHRP scripts, along with a blessed System Folder and other
filesystem knickknacks, which the OFW ROM will see and treat "specially".

NetBSD doesn't depend on such a populated HFS filesystem -- or any HFS
filesystem at all, for that matter.

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