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Norbi wrote:
I used a MorphOS only on fat32.
Without mac partition.
It possible
I'm waiting until mosteam add the boot partition choices not only hfs.
You have to consider that there are essentially two stages to booting (simply speaking):
Stage 1: Mac powers on, boots into openfirmware, executes nvram command to load MorphOS boot.img. At this stage, the readability of partitions depends on the filesystem support built into openfirmware (hfs, hfs+, fat32 (on usb, not sure if fat32 is recognised on ATA)).
This is also why Linux requires a seperate (hfs) bootstrap partition.
Stage 2: boot.img is loaded, searches for bootable MorphOS partition (sys:), depends on boot priority (unless specified using the bi= or bd= options). At this stage filesystem support depends on boot.img (MorphOS team) inbuilt filesystem (and driver) support: ffs, sfs, pfs, fat, hfs, ntfs, ext, etc.
This is also why we can't boot from firewire at this stage - the firewire stack (rather that the filesystem) is not built in to boot.img.
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