[haiku-development] Re: PowerPC and the APM
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:30:53 +0200 CEST
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> > Apple, at the very least, uses the Apple Partition Map (APM) layout
> > to
> > boot. OpenFirmware, the Apple's New World computer's BIOS, looks at
> > the first (technically, second: the APM itself counts as a
> > partition)
> > partition for a file that it can boot. (more info here:
> > http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_boot.html and here [PDF]:
> > http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gerbal/BootX.pdf . So, this is going to be
> > my
> > main priority over the next few days: creating an image with the
> > three
> > partitions on it (the APM, the bootstrap, 800k HFS partition, and
> > the
> > final BFS partition, along with a primitive bootloader.
> >
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> sorry about the double reply.try apple's diskUtil and make one
> partition.uncheck mac OS9 checkbox. when you format, leave empty or
> use
> HFS. You can reformat later. BSD recommends this, as those three you
> mention are made the same way I just said for BSD to install
> correctly.put Haiku on the last partition without formatting it, then
> all you have to do is get a ramdisk up and running between
> ofwboot[.b]
> and/or a Haiku Kernel file(sitting within HaikuOS FS).
It is supposed to be something doable from the build, that is on any
supported build platform. Linux doesn't have DiskUtil, nor BeOS.
So while it can be used to make test images and see how they are done
it won't work for the build.
François.
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