Subject: Re: Booting an OF 1.0.5
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/15/2000 10:34:40
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> Second the generic plea for help.  Is it really true that you can't 
> get OF to boot a file from a HFS partition?  I certainly haven't 
> gotten anywhere trying, but I thought that should be possible.

I've gotten it to work before. I thought fd:ofwboot.xcf was the ticket.

> Is it really true that bootxx conflicts with the Apple Partition Map? 
> You can't have boot blocks understood by OF and an APM on the same 
> disk?

No, installboot generates its own apple partition map, destroying any map
which was there before. bootxx is not at fault.

Take care,

Bill