Re: Oldworld OF boot questions
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 06:34:54PM -0700, Chris Baker wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Ethan, that's a good point. Still, I'd like a solution that
> > works without booting into OF, since my powercenter 132 has a
> > particularly broken implementation thereof. Maybe it's just a matter
> > of adding nvsetenv to root.bin. I can just mount it via the loop
> > device and add it, right?
>
> if there is enough space, the root floppy is VERY tight as it is.
Maybe I can stand to lose something else in there. I'm not insisting
that anyone support my ideosyncrasies; I just want to know how to hack
it together myself 8-)
> it would probably be better to integrate nvsetenv into busybox to save
> the overhead of a fully linked executable. i think it does belong
> there, perhaps for woody where we will hopefully be able to map /dev
> nodes to OF devices.
I trust you know what you're talking about, since I haven't faintest
idea what this means....
> > I'd still really like to build a floppy that can OF boot. Does anyone
> > know why this doesn't work?
>
> you mean a non-miboot floppy? i think you can do that by putting a
Yes, that's what I meant, but alternatives are welcome. I don't
really know what miboot is. I suppose boot-hfs-image (or whatever
it's called) is a miboot floppy, right? I just did a google search on
miboot, which didn't really come up with much aside from benh's page.
Are there any docs for it lying around?
> COFF format kernel on a floppy and doing a boot fd: or something. im
> not sure i don't have an oldworld mac to tinker with, and newworlds
> have an annoying lack of a floppy..
Ah! This is starting to sound familiar. It needs to be in COFF
format. How would one make such a thing? Let me guess: it's a
propriatary Apple format which isn't supported except for some hacked
together binutils from four years ago that everyone would just as soon
forget ever existed. Am I close?
Many thanks to all, especially Ethan who seems particularly well
informed on this topic,
cbb
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