Re: [leaf-devel] Ports to Non-x86 Platforms?

[Lynn A. <av...@gu...>]

On Friday 21 March 2003 05:41 pm, David Douthitt wrote:
> > One of my friends has added Linux
> > to the Mac boot-menu that was considered impossible (until he did it).
>
> I don't know which boot menu you mean, but for several years there's
> been a couple of INITs that would do this.  They depend on MacOS
> loading first.

Exactly, my friend Chris Olson got Linux (or whatever) to boot w/o
loading Mac-OS-X first. He isn't using OpenBoot, but he uses an 
escape sequence to open a boot manager _before_ OS-X starts to load.
I can get some info from him about this if your interested.... the Mac
lists say it is impossible though. ;-)


> > a couple of after-market manufacturers making wholesale Mac-machines
> > as well.
>
> I thought all of the Mac licenses were revoked - PowerMac, Motorola
> StarMax, UMax - they're all gone, thanks to Apple and Jobs.

Yes, for the Mac OS. These are just hardware for those who want to use
Debian, Yellowdog, FreeBSD, etc... instead of OS-X. I don't imagine you
would have a problem buying OS-X off the shelf and loading it if you
wanted though.


> Actually, there is a Bochs emulator for MacOS X - I downloaded it.
> Unfortunately, it was corrupt.  Got to try again...

WinTEL has a nicer GUI and is _much_ faster than Bochs. Plex86 development
appears to be forking to a bare base to integrate with Bochs to speed
things up considerably. Unfortunately, this fork just started in the
last 30 days w/o anything in CVS that appears very workable.
http://plex86.sf.net


> Now I've an AirPort card too.  Watch out... I'm entering the 21st
> century! :-) Most -- all! -- of my other hardware (including PC and Mac
> hardware) is at least 10 to 20 years old...

Ohhh, I'm jealous! 
I'm still walking around w/300 feet of Cat5.  ;)
-- 
~Lynn Avants
Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall Developer
http://leaf.sourceforge.net
http://www.guitarlynn.homelinux.org:81