Subject: Re: native NetBSD booter
To: Sean-Paul Rees <sean@flame.org>
From: David Huggins-Daines <bn711@freenet.carleton.ca>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/30/1999 10:42:35
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 11:21:52PM -0800, Sean-Paul Rees wrote:
> There is this nifty invention that the LinuxPPC crowd use to natively boot
> Linux or MacOS, from what I understand. Its called BootX. Perhaps we
> should do something similar for NetBSD, so we don't have to keep going
> through MacOS.

Well, the latest Penguin booter for Linux-mac68k can now install itself as
an INIT.  Until someone figures out how the MacOS boot sequence actually
works on the m68k machines (hint: it's *not* Open Firmware :-) then that's
probably the best we (BSD and Linux) can do.

Cheers

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