At 11:15 AM 12/17/95, John D. Smerdon wrote:
>I haven't been following all of the native boot discussions, but what I
>remember was...
>
>Sector zero of any disk is the boot block.  I think if the boot block
>version number is setup correctly, execution will start at offset $8x in
>sector zero and can do anything that we want.  This is before the "Welcome
>To Macintosh" is displayed, and before the Finder or the System files are
>opened.  The boot block is 12 or 16 sectors long.
>
>See Inside Macintosh - Operating System Utilities - Start Manager - Page
>9-6 for more information.

So your saying that if we replace the booting code that the mac uses, with
a booter, and made a small parition (either a floppy or a 2 mb HFS) to boot
from, it'd be similar to booting a mac now?

Remember, the folks who made the mac built AUX to only boot the way we do
right now - they didn't even mess around with the boot sectors...

I'd be cool though...

I don't got any IM books, so someone else wanna lookup and confirm how to
do this?  I'm willing to try working on this, just need the info...  Unless
there is something else more pressing that needs to be done....

Shawn.

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