On 26 Apr 2001, Dan Winship wrote:

> > add NetBSD support to bootX. As fas as I understand, BootX launch a UNIX
> > kernel from the MacOS, and gives it a device tree similar to what we 
> > currently get from OpenFirmware.
> > 
> > It seems to me that BootX support means that we would be able to boot 
> > NetBSD on machines without OpenFirmware too.
> 
> I believe the current BootX used by Darwin/OS X is not really the same
> as the old LinuxPPC BootX (it boots from OF, not Mac OS), so I think
> that's not true.

Different program, similiar purpose, same name. It is actually quite
inconvenient. I am working on the OS X OpenFirmware based BootX, not the
LinuxPPC Mac OS based application. Sorry.

Louis