[Pancutan-devel] Question about booting

[Martín Ferrari]

Hi,

On 8/8/07, Brad Boyer <flar at allandria.com> wrote:

> > - the /install folder is -hfs-blessed, but don't know what that means,
> > - there is another chrp descriptor called ofboot.b, but I don't know what it is,
> > - the yaboot boot loader is present, but I couldn't find what enables it,

> of the path is a special Mac shortcut that says to look for a
> particular file type (tbxi is a code for a bootloader). Older Mac ROM
> code was hard-coded to only look in the blessed folder for the System
> file.
>
> Because of this, booting from a blessed folder on a CD could use a
> boot path as simple as "cd:,\\:tbxi".

Ah, I see, so the mapfile does the magic here:

.b      Raw    'UNIX'   'tbxi'  "bootstrap"

So, this is neither prep nor chrp, yes?

> The ofboot.b file is a way to give boot options and configuration
> to Open Firmware. I haven't used it on a CHRP system, but on a Mac