At 9:26 AM -0500 12/7/01, Todd Vierling wrote:
>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).

Hmmm.  So if I left the filename off the boot command maybe it would 
work?  I'll give it a try.  I got used to booting vanilla 9660 CD's 
so that stripps my mental gears.
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