That would be an interesting part to hunt down, but I would imagine that ROM
wouldn't work in anything else. Even if you could get it to fit in the right
form factor - it wouldn't contain the necessary drivers to run later
devices - unless Apple divvyed up the tasks to different ROM's. Still, it
would be cool to not need a MacOS partition. I've managed to get mine down
to about 4Mb - which includes the ability to partition and format disks - as
well as get on the network to download new tarballs.

I would be interested in seeing this posted as well, though. Maybe there is
some more I could leave out?

Seth Henry
jshenry@net-noise.com

-----Original Message-----
From: port-mac68k-owner@netbsd.org
[mailto:port-mac68k-owner@netbsd.org]On Behalf Of Michael G. Schabert
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 11:45 AM
To: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: remote booting


>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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