Booting from a source build
Booting from a source build
- Subject: Booting from a source build
- From: Graham J Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:32:09 +0000
Hi,
because "it ought to be possible", I wanted to boot my G4 PowerMac from
a filesystem built entirely with open source components from
darwinsource. This works (well, it doesn't, the kernel panics
straightaway. But I know how to fix that), although because I hadn't
realised how to configure the secondary bootloader (read: hadn't RTFM in
the bless project), initially copied /System/Library/CoreServices/BootX
from a working OS X installation. This worked, although the OS X and
the Darwin were different minor versions. I've since generated a new
BootX from the usr/standalone/ppc/bootx.bootinfo on the Darwin disk.
So, the question would be: how different would two Darwins have to be
before the secondary bootloader on one won't bootstrap the other; or
could a BootX generated from bootx.bootinfo on *any* Darwin boot any
Darwin (or even any old mach_o-shaped kernel with the correct jumping-on
point)?
Cheers,
Graham.
--
Graham Lee
UNIX Systems Manager,
Oxford Physics Practical Course
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh1342
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