On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:42:19 +0100, Tobias Netzel wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > I have been using Jeff Carr's version until now since I have not > experienced any problems on my PB1400 until now despite that the kernel > argument line gets corrupted when exceeding a certain length.
That's one of the many bugs that would potentially be fixed if miBoot were to become the community-maintained project I proposed. It need not be limited to the community of this project, since miBoot is also for OldWorld PCI machines. > Where do you know from that Jeff Carr's version doesn't work with PDM > machines? The project site says that it was built especially to support > the PDM AV video card. I am going by what the project site says. Where do you see that? > Neither MacOS nor MacOSX has any problems with the ISOs produced by > Discribe. The Mac OS ROM boot code is inconsistent in what it expects for historical reasons. I only looked at the partition table created by Discribe, and the special tricks to comply with the Mac OS ROM's boot code were botched. > I'm not sure whether Discribe is responsible for the partition table as > I have created the latest ISOs using MacOS X 10.3 Disc Utility. Disc > Utility seems to be doing some special optimizations when creating an > ISO file. Here is my attempt at an ISO: http://homepage.mac.com/danielg4/my-miBoot-test.iso I created it under 10.3.9 by putting the files into a folder and issuing the following command: hdiutil create -srcfolder my\ miBoot\ test my-miBoot-test -fs HFS -nouuid -layout "UNIVERSAL CD" -format UDTO After that, the resulting file needed to be patched for partition flags, boot blocks, and possibly boot folder identification. > I'm using Discribe because it is (maybe) the only CD mastering software > that recognizes the PB1400 media bay. Maybe Toast could be patched to > scan the media bay IDE interface... > I've read somewhere in the web that there is one other CD mastering > software that is told to be working with the PB1400 media bay but only > Discribe is available as a trial version. And the trial period can be > extended by just deleting a hidden file in the System Folder. > > Since it is much easier for me to create the miboot CDs with Discribe > on the PB1400 than doing it on another machine I will continue using > it. > What do you mean with "such a problematic version of Discribe"? It is > the latest and only available version for the classic MacOS as far as I > know. I mean that the Mac OS ROM may intermittently refuse to boot ISOs without a partition map done just right. > I will use your version of miboot in the future. Thanks for it. > > Tobias ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users
