[OpenBIOS] About HFS+ support

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk
Mon Oct 15 19:19:28 CEST 2012


On 15/10/12 14:37, Programmingkid wrote:

>> This would in itself suggest that kPartitionAUXIsBootValid or
>> kPartitionIsStartup would be good indicators of which partition to
>> choose. Unfortunately I don't have any PPC OS X images or much Apple
>> experience, so guesswork is all I have at the moment.
>
> I figured out a way for you to work with a bootable PowerPC CD image for
> free. You can download a PowerPC Linux install image. That would have
> the same partitions an Apple CD would have.
>
> CD image: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.6/powerpc/iso-cd/
> The first image should be good enough.
>
> Use this command to see the partition information: pdisk <path to image
> file> -dump.
>
> Good luck

Does that mean you're unable to provide a patch against your MacOS CD? I 
have a feeling that most install CDs were ISO9660 rather than HFS which 
is why I was unable to test this before, but I can try and look again if 
you're stuck.


ATB,

Mark.



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