Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

I'm sorry. I don't have the skills in assembler language to help 
with this phase.  However, I'll happily test things on my farm of 
old Macs of various flavors.

For what it's worth, since MacOS7.6 and (I think) 8.6 boot on M68k 
Macs, the boot sector is very likely to be in M68k machine 
language, not PowerPC.

Hope that helps!

Rick


On Monday, March 29, 2004, at 02:32 AM, Sven Luther wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 07:00:06PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote
>
> > I'll do whatever I can to help with testing.

> No problem. If you feel like disassembling the miboot stage 1
> boot-sector, and providing me info on what it does, i would appreciate.
> It seems i am legally barred from doing it myself if i want to 
> write the
> reimplementation.