At 7:05 PM -0500 9/29/02, Donald Lee wrote:
>OK.  I just want to be clear, this is what I understand.
>
>OF needs an HFS partition to load ofwboot.
>ofwboot needs installboot to poke a sector number for the kernel in a
>"magic place".

I think the confusion here is that OF 1.0.5 (and OF2.x?) need the 
installboot magic (which blows away the APM and uses bootxx and plain 
ofwboot).

OF 3.x needs an HFS partition containing ofwboot.xcf (*not* plain ofwboot).

These are two completely different disk configurations and they have 
a number of other differences that go with them.  We can give you 
better advise if you always are clear about which method you are 
using.

Just to make things even more confusing some of us like to get into 
discussions about how we might get around some of the above 
divisions.  For example you can directly boot ofwboot.xcf on an OF 1 
system if it's on an ms-dos floppy or a plain vanilla ISO9660 CD-ROM. 
Just not from an HFS partition on a hard disk.  I'd like to try 
loading if from an MBR-partitioned disk with a FAT-16 partition on 
OF1 for kicks some day (though that mightn't be useful for the port 
overall).
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