miBoot and Gentoo

Simba7 · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject: miBoot and Gentoo

Is there a way to make a bootable CD using miBoot for oldworld machines?

I have a PMac 6500/300 and I wouldn't mind having one in case if something happens.

JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

I've never gotten it working with newer (2.6+) kernels, but if you have suggestions, I'd be happy to look into it.
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Simba7 · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:07 pm Post subject:

I'm using it with 2.6.23-r5 on mine. It works quite well.

I'd just like to build an install CD so I can pop it in and fire it up.

JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

In that case, as far as I know, you just need a Mac formatted disk image, miboot works by pretending to be a MacOS system folder.
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Simba7 · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject:

What about putting miBoot on a tiny HFS area on the CD and filling the rest with Gentoo?

I'll give this a try...