Re: booting from openfirmware
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 05:18:19AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 05:21:49AM -0800, Joel Klecker wrote:
> >
> > That's not true, even the most broken versions of Apple OF understand HFS
> > filesystems on floppies at least.
>
> they do? interesting, from docs i had read from apple it sounded like
> newworld was the only ones with any useful ability to read filesystems..
As Joel said... it's there, just not TOO useful. It does work, though.
> > The issue here is that `linux' is an ELF image, which nothing pre-newworld
> > supports.
>
> ah, that would be a problem :) do they support COFF executables? or
> am i thinking CHRP here..
Yep, the older OF's speak COFF - not perfectly, but usably.
Dan
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