Subject: Re: native NetBSD booter
To: David Huggins-Daines <bn711@freenet.carleton.ca>
From: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/30/1999 13:44:54
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, David Huggins-Daines wrote:

> 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.

BootX is a system extension, too.  There was, at one time, an extension
version of NetBSD-mac68k's booter, but I'm not sure what happened to the
development on that.


David

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