Subject: Re: Mac/x86 multiplatform bootable CD?
To: Peter Fairbrother <peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/18/2001 12:23:48
	Presumably you cannot do the snag hack on an iso9660 filesystem?

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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Peter Fairbrother wrote:

> Does anyone know how to make a CD that boots both x86 and Mac's using the
> 'c' snag key. Is this even possible?
>
> I can make an x86 bootable CD's, a Mac-snag-bootable CD, or a CD that boots
> both x86 and Macs-from-OF, but not one that boots both x86 and
> Macs-from-snag.
>
> Any links, ideas, rtfm's, welcomed with thanks
>
> -- Peter
>
>
> { I'll be booting and running a pair of very hacked ramdisk kernels +
> OS/X/apps direct from the CD with a union iso/mfs and no HD access. See
> www.m-o-o-t.org for why.
>
> Of the ones I can do now, x86-only is standard El Torito.
>
> The Mac-snag-bootable is a horrible hack - in MacOS/ResEdit add a resource
> fork to ofwboot.xcf, set type to 'tbxi', put it in a blessed System folder
> (fake, contains empty System and Finder files with just minimum Finder info
> showing type/creator), and burn a bootable CD, works for OF3+ Macs only so
> far but that's OK.
>
> The combo x86/Mac-from-OF is just an El Torito iso9660/HFS hybrid with
> ofwboot.xcf on the HFS part. }
>
>