Subject: Re: installboot questions
To: Andy <andy@softbook.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/11/2000 13:18:03
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Andy wrote:
> Since all Macs ( even older models) have a xcoff-loader package, is it
> possible to build ofwboot in xcoff format and let the OpenFirmware load it?
> If it's possible, any ideas how?
Use -current source. The system will build ofwboot.xcf, which is an xcoff
version of ofwboot. LOAD-BASE (I think that's the one) must be set at
0x6c0000 in agreement with what ofwboot was compiled with.
Take care,
Bill