Subject: Re: MacOS vs HFS
From: Charles Stevenson (csteven@newhope.terraplex.com)
Date: Sat Oct 14 2000 - 15:15:30 MDT
It's a matter of OF looking for a bootable file on an HFS partition and tricking
it to believe it is booting the MacOS from that HFS partition.
"William F. Hostman" wrote:
> >But to bring this back on topic: why make the disk image bootable?
> >Is that neccessary for yaboot or something? From my experience with
> >BootX and OpenFirmware installs (of SuSE, LinuxPPc, NetBSD, YDL, and
> >now MkLinux R1) there's no need for a bootable install disk. Or is
> >there some way to run linux without having _any_ Mac OS partition,
> >which requires a bootable install disk?
> >I thought even Yaboot required a small, fake mac os. So what's the skinny?
>
> Yaboot needs no MacOS SOFTWARE. It does need to reside on an HFS partition
> (not quite the same thing). But Yaboot also needs the Open Firmware, as
> far as i can tell.
>
> Bootable CD's allow you to tottally escape the need for MacOS at all (but
> not for the HFS partition), if said CD boots using a kernel you can operate
> with. (Which meant for me, I HAD to have a MacOS partition, so I could put
> a workable kernel into the loop, as 1.2 distro's kernel didn't work on the
> DV SE 500Mhz.)
>
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Best Regards,
Charles
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