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Hello,

On Mar 1, 2007, at 13:39, The masked-coder known as Randux wrote:

> I should say for the benefit of anyone who's interested, that I am 
> able to boot Mac OS disks from an external 600e CDROM drive on both my 
> 540c and 3400c. I don't understand why we can't boot NetBSD MacPPD 
> disks as well, but I haven't had any success here. (I downloaded and 
> burned a CD for macppc-3.1 but I could not get it to boot.)

NetBSD/macppc:
- - NEEDS OpenFirmware, not just for the boot loader
- - doesn't support NuBus

The 550 is a NuBus machine and it doesn't have OpenFirmware.
Support for NuBus PowerMacs would probably not share much code with 
macppc that's not shared with mac68k as well.

Of course it's always possible to add support for hardware like this 
but that requires the right hardware in the right hands - someone with 
both the knowledge and the time to do it.

have fun
Michael
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