>If i summise correctly, the saame reason you cant netboot a 68k mac 
>is the reason why you cant boot right into bsd. I have been told 
>that in non OF (open firmware) macs expect the boot device to be an 
>HFS volume (same reason why you cant boot an hfs+ volume on older 
>macs) the rom just wont let it. However, i have herad of  one rumor 
>about a netbooting machine with some crazy test version of 
>appleshare. But i dont have enough details for it to matter.

Yes, the limitation is in ROM...Apple used to sell a custom NetBoot 
ROM for one of their compact Macs...unfortunately I forget which one 
(vintage-wise, color classic seems about right). The ROMs were 
freakin' expensive, though, and of course it's not a current Apple 
part.

Mike
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