Re: G5 powermacs

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 04:40:52PM +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> >> [...] so if I can use a cd9660 file system as the
> >> root file system that might be a workable path to pursue.
> >
> > That one is easy (x86, vax, sparc64 do it).
> 
> Mm, ok.  But ... x86 still has largish MEMORY_DISK settings in
> their configs.  Isn't that populated + used?

Yes, but not for install CDs, which use a simple GENERIC kernel.

> > Making that ISO image bootable on macppc might be more tricky, but you can
> > always netboot the kernel and use root on cd9660.
> 
> Hm, the ISO image produced with "build.sh iso-image" for macppc,
> isn't that bootable on macppc?  (I vaguely recall that possibly
> being a problem in the past?)

The ISOs do not contain the hybrid HFS+ part with ofboot.xcf, but I think 
newer OF can boot off cd9660 file systems directly.

Martin