Re: [Emile-devel] Bootable Debian install CD-ROM for Mac 68k

[Laurent V. <la...@lv...>]

Le 20 oct. 06 à 12:24, Brad Boyer a écrit :

> On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 01:24:30AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>> I'm happy to announce EMILE, my bootloader for Macintosh m68k, is now
>> able to create bootable CD-ROM.
>>
>> I've juste created an install CD-ROM for sarge.
>
> This is definitely a good thing. Thank you for putting in this effort,
> as I'm sure a fair number of us will appreciate it in the future. In
> fact, the ppc people might even appreciate it if it helps getting  
> CD-ROM
> boot to work on oldworld or nubus powermacs.
>
>> But as it contains Apple copyrighted materials (the AppleDriver), it
>> cannot be distributed widely.
>> It's only a first step, I'm working on writing a "dummy" AppleDriver
>> of my own (a real AppleDriver is not needed for Linux... I guess)
>> For the moment, EMILE must extract an AppleDriver from a MacOS
>> bootable CDROM.
>
> My understanding is that while Linux itself doesn't need the  
> AppleDriver,
> the ROM will ignore a drive that doesn't have something that at least
> looks like a valid driver. It will automatically try to load the  
> driver
> from each drive and try to use it, and I'm pretty sure that any  
> failures
> remove that disk from the boot order. However, Apple does have a fair

Yes. But a "dummy" driver returning "noErr" doesn't work.
I think it must call at least "AddDrive".

> amount of documentation on how to write the driver. It's just extra  
> work
> that noone has had time to finish. I read the docs at one point and  
> came
> to the conclusion that other work had a higher priority. Apple always
> supported 3rd-party drivers, since they deliberately didn't license
> their own for use on drives from other companies.

I'm searching the SCSI_Driver_Example.sit, but I don't find it on the  
apple website.
Do you know where I can find it ?

Regards,
Laurent
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