[haiku] Re: Booting Haiku PPC

> Here is the link to the zipped haiku ppc image:
> http://www.steekr.com/n/50-17/share/LNK45054933049abffe7/
> 
> I do not have a PPC so I can not test it out. Just for fun, feel free 
> to 
> try it out yourselves and see how it works.

The image by itself isn't bootable.

For now you need to jam haiku-boot-cd-ppc to build an HFS/ISO image 
containing the bootloaders.

OpenFirmware doesn't know how to read BFS anyway.

> 
> What I found interesting is that 7765 targets were built.  Compared
> to x86 gcc4 haiku image which is somewhere around 9600.  Not bad.

That's because some drivers are x86 only.

François.

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