BootX (the MacOS X kind)

BootX (the MacOS X kind)

[Timothy A. Seufert]

Seen on the darwin-development list:

Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:44:38 -0800
To: Darwin-Development@lists.apple.com
From: Josh de Cesare <decesare@apple.com>
Subject: BootX is now in Darwin

Hello,
	After much cleaning and polishing, BootX has been moved to
the Darwin CVS Repository.  It should be available withing the hour.
Basically put, BootX is the booter for Mac OS X and Darwin OS.  It
understands loading kernels from HFS+, UFS, TFTP and even EXT2.  It
can load kernels in Mach-O and ELF format.  There are no new features
intended for BootX, and it is now in maintenance mode.  Feel free to
suggest changes or enhancement.  There is limited support for boot
PPC based Linux's, but there is little or now testing.  If you have
comments or suggestions, please let me know.  Enjoy.

--
Josh de Cesare
IOPlatformExpert Architect
Mac OS X - Core OS

   Tim Seufert

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Re: BootX (the MacOS X kind)

[Michael Schmitz]

> Hello,
> 	After much cleaning and polishing, BootX has been moved to
> the Darwin CVS Repository.  It should be available withing the hour.
> Basically put, BootX is the booter for Mac OS X and Darwin OS.  It

Is that one based on BenH's BootX? But that one needs MacOS to run, while
Apple's tries to boot MacOS. Weird.
Having BootX use my kernels on the ext2 filesystem would be nice though.

	Michael


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Re: BootX (the MacOS X kind)

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>> 	After much cleaning and polishing, BootX has been moved to
>> the Darwin CVS Repository.  It should be available withing the hour.
>> Basically put, BootX is the booter for Mac OS X and Darwin OS.  It
>
>Is that one based on BenH's BootX? But that one needs MacOS to run, while
>Apple's tries to boot MacOS. Weird.
>Having BootX use my kernels on the ext2 filesystem would be nice though.

No, Apple's BootX is a completely different beast. It uses a BSD
implementation of ext2.

Ben.

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Re: BootX (the MacOS X kind)

[Michael Schmitz]

> >Is that one based on BenH's BootX? But that one needs MacOS to run, while
> >Apple's tries to boot MacOS. Weird.
> >Having BootX use my kernels on the ext2 filesystem would be nice though.
>
> No, Apple's BootX is a completely different beast. It uses a BSD
> implementation of ext2.

You should've trademarked the BootX name :-) This'll result in some
confusion ...

	Michael


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Re: BootX (the MacOS X kind)

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>You should've trademarked the BootX name :-) This'll result in some
>confusion ...

Yeah, I know. I suggested them to change the name long before they
released it, but they apparently didn't care.

ben.

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Re: BootX (the MacOS X kind)

[Michael Schmitz]

> >You should've trademarked the BootX name :-) This'll result in some
> >confusion ...
>
> Yeah, I know. I suggested them to change the name long before they
> released it, but they apparently didn't care.

Now who's surprised?

What's the license on their version of BootX? Maybe we can hijack it :-)

	Michael


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Re: BootX (the MacOS X kind)

[Ethan Benson]

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On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:30:40AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> 
> > >You should've trademarked the BootX name :-) This'll result in some
> > >confusion ...
> >
> > Yeah, I know. I suggested them to change the name long before they
> > released it, but they apparently didn't care.
> 
> Now who's surprised?
> 
> What's the license on their version of BootX? Maybe we can hijack it :-)

we can't, its apsl like everything else.

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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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