From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:47:50 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: LinuxPPC and Pismo Powerbook Message-ID: <20000329214750.E4054@suse.de> Reply-To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org References: <20000329184718.027924@mailhost.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20000329184718.027924@mailhost.mipsys.com> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, Mar 29, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000, Olaf Hering wrote: > > >I had never problems with my faked system folder, I move it around, to > >CDs, to netatalk servers and where ever I want. This can be a "feature" > >of OS9 that it doesn't remove the information, I don't know. > > > >What makes this blessing so special?? > > The "blessing" is a combination of two things: > > - The directory ID of the "blessed" folder is written somewhere in the > disk catalog (I think in the MDB, I don't remember for sure) > > - Valid boot blocs are written to bloc 0 and 1 of the volume > > OF may still be able to boot if the bootblocs are not present (but miBoot > can't). In this case it is for the new world machines and as I said it works always and ever. I drag it from the partition to a netatalk volume, go to another mac and drag the folder into the Linux boot partition and it is shown as a system folder. We have only OS9 here, the older B&W machines can not be bootet from a OS 8.5 CDs and the original CDs are gone. So I can't test it with OS 8.6. I will post a smi the next days, I guess when you open it and drag it onto another partition it will be bootable. Gruss Olaf -- $ man 1 current_release BUGS Users never read manuals... ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/