Hello,

> Ok, good advice that I will explore. However, is it that OF 1.0.5 can 
> not read HFS, or is that it can not read Apple Partition Maps (before 
> even getting to an HFS partition)?
It can't read HFS - only FAT and ISO9660. Booting MacOS works through 
some pseudo-device /AAPL,ROM which contains all the code to boot it.

have fun
Michael