Subject: Re: Booting without MacOS: We have WOOHOO!
To: NetBSD mac68k port list <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Rafael Diniz <rafael2k@terra.com.br>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/26/2003 06:56:03
Great news!!
Any chance in direct booting my PB180?

Bye,
Rafael Diniz

Em S=E1b 23 Ago 2003 23:29, Nyef escreveu:
> Hello all.
>
> http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/macboot/test_image.tgz is a floppy boot image
> of the 1.6.1 install kernel for an SE/30 with 8 or more megs of RAM.
>
> http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/macboot/macboot7.tgz is the source archive.
>
> This only works on SE/30 systems with 8 or more megs of RAM as of now, but
> it's a start.
>
> If we want this working with other RAM sizes, we need to change the RAM
> size paramter not to be hardcoded (and may need to write a RAM size
> detector for 32-bit dirty systems).
>
> If we want this working on any other macs at all, we need to figure out
> how to get the MACHINEID values. The Gestalt manager is obviously not
> loaded at this point, so I'm at a loss here.
>
> If we want this working on other II-series macs, we need to change the
> video information to not be hardcoded (it's hardcoded for an SE/30 right
> now).
>
> No work has been done towards making a system boot from a hard drive.
>
> This code fails spectacularly on my Performa 400, so there's probably a
> bit of low-level hacking to be done to get Universal-ROM macs working.

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