[OpenBIOS] OpenBIOS as a boot manager

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Programmingkid wrote:
> 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. :)

Thanks, I'm here for the long term :-)

It was only a minor thought anyway. I was rather clutching at straws, 
since somebody who believes that Macs are the best thing since sliced 
bits tells me that the way to get OS X onto that machine is to stick in 
two different types of USB card etc. at which point the whole thing 
sounds like it's more trouble than it's worth.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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