Subject: Re: booting netbsd
To: None <shelby@fcps.org>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/22/1998 14:41:16
shelby@fcps.org wrote:
> This may have already been explained..  but I'm new at Mac's and couldn;t
> find it in a FAQ.
> 
> Why dosn't the port have any real boot blocks?  or is there a even better
> reason for using MacOS to boot NetBSD up?

There are a couple of reasons for a MacOS boot:  one is that I think that
the ROM's look for the system file on an HFS volume, the second is that we
use a lot of information about the machine given to us by MacOS during
NetBSD boot.

Does that make sense?

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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