native booting

Amitai Schlair <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mac68k
Message-ID <CA+pHapvGGa6vH_toJ_VZbbS9=OgFjOvO-a=MUYTx7p1raFR+ow@mail.gmail.com> 
I've always wanted to be able to install and boot NetBSD on my 68K
Macs without needing Mac OS. Here are a few links on the subject:

tv@'s analysis of many ports' boot blocks, including mac68k:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2002/03/12/0017.html


Once upon a time, someone managed to boot his SE/30 natively from floppy:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mac68k/2003/08/23/0001.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mac68k/2005/05/17/0002.html


As he mentions, Linux/mac68k has EMILE, with which (provided your hard
disk is partitioned just so) you don't need Mac OS installed:

http://emile.sourceforge.net


And there's a bunch of fun stuff here:

http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/
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