On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

: The release CDs are supposed to have some special magic so they work
: even with the old OF versions that don't normally work with hybrid
: CD's.  That magic is mainly a special type/creator for ofwboot.xcf in
: the Mac partition I think.

The magic put in for older OFW versions is a real partition-0 bootblock and
bootxx loader pointing to a non-XCOFF ofwboot.  This is the same boot method
used by the boot floppy (and thus these CDs boot similarly to the boot
floppy).

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