site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) Hi, Cheers, Graham. -- Graham Lee UNIX Systems Manager, Oxford Physics Practical Course http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh1342 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... 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)? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com