Compiling BootX?

[Andrew P McPherson]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Takashi Oe wrote:

>
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Andrew P McPherson wrote:
>
> > I'm attempting to port the experimental nubus-pmac kernel to 68k Macs
> > upgraded with a PowerPC card.  I have found that the BootX version
> > modified for the Nubus powermacs, avalable at nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net,
> > nearly works with my Quadra 700+PPC card, but that it hangs while
> > configuring the video.
>
> It would be very nice if we can build BootX with freely available tools,
> but, that said, I'd think Apple's MkLinux Booter should work on your
> machine.   Of course, you still need to port the kernel, but you have one
> less thing to worry about.
>

The problem with the MkLinux booter is that it refuses to run because it
doesn't recognize the machine as "supported."  Is the source of the
MkLinux booter available so that I could disable that "feature," or was
that a closed-source effort by Apple?

-Andrew


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