From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <29e54826341c623155a116461918e272@collyer.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] PowerPC Booting From: Geoff Collyer From: geoff@collyer.net In-Reply-To: <3F03C368.4080308@ameritech.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-ertyponbpnkmyogswahviwnxei" Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 21:50:46 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e5b6210a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-ertyponbpnkmyogswahviwnxei Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You're looking at a non-trivial bit of work. For one thing, the Apple Ethernet interfaces are unique to Apple, so we have no drivers for them (currently anyway). But 9mtx isn't going to work if you get it loaded for a lot of other reasons; see the archives. --upas-ertyponbpnkmyogswahviwnxei Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from collyer.net ([10.9.0.3]) by collyer.net; Wed Jul 2 21:47:15 PDT 2003 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by collyer.net; Wed Jul 2 21:47:15 PDT 2003 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id EA8BB19AAC; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 00:47:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.6.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 6353819A96; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 00:47:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id A1F1819AA3; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 00:46:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp803.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp803.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.182]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with SMTP id ADF8919A93 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 00:46:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from adsl-67-38-19-191.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net (HELO ameritech.net) (dbailey27@ameritech.net@67.38.19.191 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Jul 2003 04:46:31 -0000 Message-ID: <3F03C368.4080308@ameritech.net> From: northern snowfall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] PowerPC Booting References: <8d1d79d373312526d6b556f424b96121@collyer.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 00:47:20 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,REFERENCES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA, X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) > > >I don't believe anybody has Plan 9 running on the Mac. >See the archives for what it would take to make it run. > Are there any docs on how Open Firmware booting works? All I can find are binaries and techniques that use XCOFF on floppy disks. The ether card in my Old World isn't bootable as there is no OF-ROM in it. I don't want to install plan9 on the disk, I'd like to save the MacOS9. Thus, writing a boot loader is probably in my best interest. Any URLs/etc are appreciated. Don http://www.7f.no-ip.com/~north_ --upas-ertyponbpnkmyogswahviwnxei--