At 8:19 PM +0200 4/8/03, Anselm Garbe wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 11:12:38AM -0700, Michael Wolfson wrote:
>  > At 12:55 PM +0200 4/8/03, you wrote:
>  > :)Is it possible to boot from a DOS partition (all partitions created
>>  :)with disklabel) with OF3 and ofwboot.xcf?
>>
>>  Should be, but we don't have the framework in place to deal with it
>>  automatically.
>
>Tried it using disklabel, but OF3 doesn't seem to recognize the dos
>partition. Well, I'm going to use the mac os x disk utility of the
>installation disk now and create a minimal MacOS HFS+ partition to
>place ofwboot.xcf now.

A DOS partition should be OK.  However a *BSD disklabel won't be 
understood by Open Firmware.  OF should understand an Apple Partition 
Map or an MBR map.  I don't know what you would put into an APM to 
tell OF that a partition is DOS though.
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