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Even in the OpenFirmware PowerPC era, BootX was a reasonably popular classic MacOS app that worked the same way for booting into Linux (and confusingly, was als
by mrpippy 3y ago
Even in the OpenFirmware PowerPC era, BootX was a reasonably popular classic MacOS app that worked the same way for booting into Linux (and confusingly, was also the name of a Mac OS X bootloader component). I think the BeOS loader also worked the same way.
- classichasclass 3y agoThe BeOS loader was a little trickier: that one actually managed to enter supervisor mode, which shouldn't have been possible, and was why BeOS wasn't supported on Mac OS 9 (only 8.6 and earlier).