At 12:55 PM +0200 4/8/03, anselmg@t-online.de wrote:
>Is it possible to boot from a DOS partition (all partitions created
>with disklabel) with OF3 and ofwboot.xcf?

Yes, generically, because I understand some Linux setups work this 
way.  That is I know OF3 supports it.

If you mean exactly like port-i386 then no, because nobody wants to 
perpetrate the dual-map stuff they have with both a 'c' and a 'd' 
partition meaning all of (some flavor of) the disk.

Likewise if you want to use the macppc installboot program to write 
first-level boot blocks then no, because it only works for OF 1.0.5 
machines and we never figured out how to generalize it.

Personally I think booting from an MBR partition (instead of an Apple 
partition) could be interesting because it might be easier to get 
something that would work for all OF versions.  And the necessary 
tools could be independent of MacOS.  Please give it a whirl and let 
us know what you discover.

Realistically, is it that big a deal putting ofwboot into a DOS 
partition for booting vice putting it into an Apple partition for 
booting?  It takes up space either way.  It's not in a BSD partition 
either way.
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