On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Joseph Sarkes wrote:

> Another question re: G4 and macppc in general, is whether there is a
> reason that ofwboot.xcf has no ffs support in it, like the i386 boot
> program has support built in for multi-filesystem booting. Are there
> size constraints? I don't know forth, but it seems reasonable to me
> that even if one had to go through open firmware to do it, it should
> be possible to read a kernel from a ffs filesystem. (it is of course
> possible that I am totally clueless in this matter)

?? ofwboot.xcf certainly can read a kernel from an ffs. The problem is
that Open Firmware itself can't. So unless we write code in forth to read
an ffs, we can't have ofwboot itself on an ffs.

Take care,

Bill