On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:28:03PM -0700, Tovar wrote: > I don't know when/if LINUX is going to support high quality printing on an > Epson Photo 700 directly, and MOL doesn't currently support serial lines. i recently had an encounter with an epson printer. i got rid of it and replaced it with a true postscript printer. that solved the problem quite nicely. > So i'm stuck booting into MacOS for various reasons. But i have an HFS > LINUX boot partition instead of using BootX, and it doesn't need a monitor this sounds like miboot. miboot is as fundementally flawed as bootx (miboot IS bootx). its also a pain to configure, can't read ext2, etc. making it a very poor general purpose bootloader. it was never designed for anything but bootable CD's and floppies. its useless for bootable CDs since it requires non-free, non-distributable Apple CDROM drivers. > The boot partition was made in the same manner one makes an HFS boot > floppy. So this approach might be an alternative for those machines > you don't want to install Quik on for some reason. beware that many will find MacOS will debless this partition, and remove its bootblock rendering it unbootable since miboot is not `real' macos. not all will have this but many will. if you mark the partition read-only in the partition table you can probably prevent this. (assuming MacOS 8/9 still respects that bit, OSX certainly does). setting this read only bit is quite easy using a hex editor on /dev/[sh]da1 from linux. Drive setup does not appear to touch it last i checked (it just set the HFS readonly bit which macos ignores when removing blessing/bootblocks from `fake' systems.) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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