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