Re: [Emile-devel] Bootable Debian install CD-ROM for Mac 68k
Status: Beta
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From: Laurent V. <la...@lv...> - 2006-10-21 10:19:23
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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 ---------------------- Laurent Vivier ---------------------- "Imagination is more important than knowledge." |