auto booting

Axel Scheepers axel.scheepers at nl.clara.net
Wed Aug 19 20:17:47 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 14:08 -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> Open Firmware needs its output set to screen in order to initialize the 
> display. You can do this with a custom bootscript, or you can use the HFS 
> loader image that the system provides at /boot/boot1.hfs. This is a 
> small HFS filesystem containing a boot block and an OF script that you can
> dd to a !Apple_HFS or !Apple_Bootstrap partition. sysinstall still needs
> to be taught about this...
> -Nathan

Thanks Nathan,

I'll check this out next time I'm near my iBook.

Kind regards,

Axel Scheepers
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