Subject: Re: Native boot [was Booter 1.8]
To: Erik Bertelsen <erik@sockdev.uni-c.dk>
From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@injersey.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/17/1995 14:14:36
At 1:10 PM 12/17/95, Erik Bertelsen wrote:
>On Sat, 16 Dec 1995, Shawn Pearce wrote:
>
>> Yes, and since the mac will _NOT_ boot to anything other than an HFS
>> partition with a blessed system folder, this is the closest way to boot
>> without making a "fake" macOS.  Way to hard - I'd never ask for that do be
>> done.
>>
>A question out of ignorance: Does (did?) AUX boot natively or from a
>running Mac OS? Is there anything to learn from AUX with regard to booting
>a Unix system on Macintosh hardware?

It boots exactly like we do MacBSD.  Except it keeps a part of the kernel
on the MacOS side too.  I think the only thing left to learn would be
making a Finder/MacOS emulator for MacBSD.

Shawn.

######################################################################
#  In Jersey: The Digital Information Network of the Garden State    #
#      Freelance HTML/Graphics/Programmer                            #
######################################################################
#                                                                    #
# http://nj5.injersey.com/~spearce/  ###  http://www.injersey.com/   #
######################################################################