New booter
Ethan Benson
erbenson at alaska.net
Thu Sep 16 08:27:30 EST 1999
On 15/9/99 Peter Bierman wrote:
>
>
>Since I'm the one that came up with the "disgusting kludge", do you have
>any ideas to share on how to make it better?
yes I have already mentioned it, do it like intel machines do, the
BIOS (OF) loads code from the bootblock of the disk or root partition
(marked bootable in the partition table), simple and filesystem
independent.
requiring a dedicated partition for the BOOTSTRAP is ridiculous.
and so is chaining oneself to a single filesystem (HFS)
the bootblock method works on most OF machines since there are plenty
of people using quik to do it, its the newworld machines that are
either different or broken, however they have a flashable ROM so
apple can fix this oversight.
Best Regards,
Ethan Benson
To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
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