19 Apr
2013
19 Apr
'13
12:41 p.m.
On Apr 19, 2013, at 6:06 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
I've got OpenFirmware as a boot manager on a couple of machines (i.e. resident on its own partition on disc), but is it possible to use OpenBIOS for this on a PPC Mac (specifically, a beige Old World G3?).
I'm going to guess that it isn't possible because you would have to make OpenBIOS run as or on top of Apple's OpenFirmware.
Is there any chance that this would drive a DVD drive sufficient to install OS X? I'm not intending this for heavy use, but simply to provide a test target for another open-source project.
Probably not. Every attempt to boot Mac OS X fails. But I am still working on this problem. Hopefully a solution is in our future. :)