[OpenBIOS] Mac OS X support

Programmingkid programmingkidx at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 17:39:40 CET 2012


On Nov 16, 2012, at 6:59 AM, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:
> 
>>> I will certainly test any new patches that appear ;)
>> 
>> Could you test this one?
>> 
>> This patch adds an feature to OpenBIOS that automatically selects the correct partition to use. You can see this code in action when you use these commands: "dir cd:,\" and "boot cd:,\\:tbxi". 
> 
> Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Nov 16 2012 11:38
> Trying hd:,\\:tbxi...
> Trying hd:,\ppc\bootinfo.txt...
> No valid state has been set by load or init-program
> 
> 0 > dir cd:,\ 
>     73728 2002-07-18 08:21:48 Desktop DB
>         0 2002-07-18 08:21:49 Desktop DF
>         0 2002-07-18 08:21:49 Finder
>         0 2002-07-18 08:21:49 OSXBoot!
>         0 2002-07-18 08:21:50 System
>      1778 2002-07-18 08:21:49 Where_have_all_my_files_gone?
> ok
> 0 > boot cd:,\\:tbxi No valid state has been set by load or init-program
> ok
> 0 > 
> 
> It is not seeing some files, it should have mach_kernel in this listing.
> 
> However when I also add checking for correct partition signature
> (http://lists.openbios.org/pipermail/openbios/2011-August/006618.html)
> it seems to work

I am betting you are using the HFS+ file system with a HFS wrapper. This is a case I didn't test. Thanks for catching this bug. Could you send me a patch? Let me know if you need help with making a patch file. 





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