On 2/10/2011 11:55 AM, Scott Holder wrote:
On 2/10/2011 11:45 AM, D. Finnigan wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:51:27 -0800 (PST), Gregg Eshelman
<[email protected]> wrote:
You can use extended format on an 040 CPU Mac but not to
boot from.
That's not true. 040's can boot 8.1 HFS+
I've never had it work the couple times I've accidentally tried to do
this. Apple agrees as well:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1604?viewlocale=en_US
As I understand it, the 68k ROMs are incapable of reading HFS+ to boot
to (hence why alternate OSes, including Apple's own A/UX, required
small Mac OS partitions to bootstrap into the other OS)
Scott
Actually, just for completeness sake, when I recently got back into m68k
Linux I discovered there is now a bootloader that directly boots at
least Linux from floppy or HD without needing MacOS or an HFS partition.
No idea how it works but someone managed to get around the HFS/Mac OS
System Suitcase requirement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMILE
Scott
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