Subject: Re: macppc boot process.
To: None <port-macppc@NetBSD.org>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/31/2004 08:02:09
In article <47037CF8-FAC4-11D8-90DA-000A95E95CCE@earthlink.net>
macallan18@earthlink.net wrote:

> > Ok, good advice that I will explore. However, is it that OF 1.0.5 can 
> > not read HFS, or is that it can not read Apple Partition Maps (before 
> > even getting to an HFS partition)?
> It can't read HFS - only FAT and ISO9660. Booting MacOS works through 
> some pseudo-device /AAPL,ROM which contains all the code to boot it.

My Apus2000 with OF 2.0 can load XCOFF files from HFS floppy.
That was the way I tried to boot kernels long ago.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp