On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 04:44:50PM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 05:31:08PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > So, with a tremendous effort from Ethan Benson, I now understand how to make > > new-world bootable CDs. A conversation with Ben told me my problem with > > floppy-booting on oldworld, so that should be fixed soon also. At that > > point I am looking at (with luck) having the first CD be new-world bootable > > and also PReP (hopefully adding an HFS partition table will not muck up the > > prep booter and vice versa. I have high hopes.). It will include floppy > > Back when I was making PReP boot CD's with a perl script, Troy Benjegerdes > was already making the changes to mkhybrid to handle PReP boot. I > submitted his changes to the mkhybrid maintainer and recall him commenting > that HFS/PReP hybrid boot CD's worked fine. I have high hopes too. :) > > The HFS partition isn't at block 0 on the media is it? That's where the > PReP header (which is merely a PC partition table) sits. PReP firmware > reads the first two 512 byte blocks on the media, looks up an entry in > that header which contains an absolute offset to the start of an image, > and then reads it in and vectors to it.
Er... I think it might be. I'll ask Troy how he did it. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
