Subject: Re: why we need MacOS to boot NetBSD? (FAQ)
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Rafael Diniz <rafael2k@terra.com.br>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/20/2003 03:28:58
Why Apple doesn't open the MacOS 7.x source code?
Has anyone sent an email to Apple?

Bye,
Rafael Diniz

> It should be possible to write a booter that runs right out of the boot
> sector of a floppy or an HFS partition on a hard disk. In fact, if you
> search the mailing list archives you'll see that somebody was actually
> working on this and made some reasonable progress. However, writing suc=
h
> a boot loader is a non-trivial activity because there is little
> documentation on how to write bootable software to the Mac ROMs.
>
> So basically, it seems to be ust a matter of "somebody hasn't gotten
> around to it yet". :-)

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