Subject: Re: ofwboot.xcf for 1.6
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/05/2002 12:36:56
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> I may be a bit out of order here since I haven't verified the problem exists.
>
> I seem to recall that the ofwboot.xcf included in the 1.6 iso image
> and in the release ftp site wasn't updated properly.  Someone (Bill?)
> posted a link for a real, recompiled 1.6 version of ofwboot which
> included support for some TiBook keyboard fixes and, I think,
> OSX-flavor "UFS" support due to updated library includes.

I put up a re-compiled version of ofwboot.xcf for 1.6, but it didn't fix
those problems. It fixed the memory-allocation-corrupts-kernel problem.

> Am I dreaming?  If not could someone update me?
>
> I'm hoping to set up a TiBook for dual boot from an OSX "UFS"
> partition over the holidays.  This should be substantially easier
> than the standard installation instructions, I think.  If I'm not
> dreaming what we support in 1.6.

I don't know if support for that is in 1.6.

Take care,

Bill