Subject: Mac/x86 multiplatform bootable CD?
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Fairbrother <peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/18/2001 00:26:42
Does anyone know how to make a CD that boots both x86 and Mac's using the
'c' snag key. Is this even possible?

I can make an x86 bootable CD's, a Mac-snag-bootable CD, or a CD that boots
both x86 and Macs-from-OF, but not one that boots both x86 and
Macs-from-snag.

Any links, ideas, rtfm's, welcomed with thanks

-- Peter


{ I'll be booting and running a pair of very hacked ramdisk kernels +
OS/X/apps direct from the CD with a union iso/mfs and no HD access. See
www.m-o-o-t.org for why.

Of the ones I can do now, x86-only is standard El Torito.

The Mac-snag-bootable is a horrible hack - in MacOS/ResEdit add a resource
fork to ofwboot.xcf, set type to 'tbxi', put it in a blessed System folder
(fake, contains empty System and Finder files with just minimum Finder info
showing type/creator), and burn a bootable CD, works for OF3+ Macs only so
far but that's OK.

The combo x86/Mac-from-OF is just an El Torito iso9660/HFS hybrid with
ofwboot.xcf on the HFS part. }