miboot documentation?

Dan Burcaw yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Apr 4 13:11:01 2003


We have no idea about miBoot.. it is part of the standard BootX
distribution, so that's the only reason its there.

Feel free to share anything you learn about it :-)

-Dan

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 14:09, Rick Thomas wrote:
> So far no takers.  By diligent goggling, I found a short HOWTO for
> people who already have some sophistication about Mac technicalities (It
> suggests using resedit to make configuration changes) in the PPCLinux
> archives at
> 
> 	http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-user/200003/msg01388.html
> 
> I believe that these instructions are out of date, because I've also
> found some suggestions that later versions of miBoot are easier to use
> -- they read a text configuration file, rather than looking in resedit
> places -- but I have no instructions for how to use the later version,
> or the format of the configuration file.
> 
> The YDLv3.0 install disk includes miBoot alongside of BootX at the top
> level, but does not give instructions.  I conclude from this that
> somebody at YDL knows how to do it.  It would be nice if they could
> afford the time to share their knowledge with us.
> 
> I really want to avoid the disk space it takes to put up a fully
> functional MacOS partition just so I can use BootX.
> 
> Please help!
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rick
> 
> Rick Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > Does anybody have a pointer to documentation on miboot?
> > 
> > BenH's page says it's now included with BootX, which is nice, but it
> > doesn't tell me how to use it.
> > 
> > Any links?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Rick
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