Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 08:37:32AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > No problem. The PReP boot scheme uses a PC partition table. However, the > bootstrap code area in block 0 that contains the table is not used. It > seems clear to me now that since the mac table allows for a PC partition > table in i

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Matt Porter
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:20:40PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:13:30PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > yes there is something there, but not much: > > > > 000 4552 0200 1e44 0001 0001 > > 020 > > * > > 0

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:13:30PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > yes there is something there, but not much: > > 000 4552 0200 1e44 0001 0001 > 020 > * > 760 55aa > 0001000 > > > that is the firs

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:01:43PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Then there shouldn't be a problem. Of course I have this vague memory > of a Block0 on HFS disks... yes there is something there, but not much: 000 4552 0200 1e44 0001 0001 020

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:47:53PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:02:11PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > 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 > > > re

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:02:11PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > 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 > >

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
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-

Re: PowerPC cd status

2000-03-23 Thread Matt Porter
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 > po

PowerPC cd status

2000-03-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
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 a