[CDG5] Backporting HFS+ to Mac OS 8.0 and earlier

Elliot Nunn elliotnunn at fastmail.com
Mon May 4 05:51:24 AWST 2020


I agree that it was probably not a technical choice. But HFS+ booting is a murky area that I haven’t yet explored fully.

> On 3 May 2020, at 8:25 pm, Jason Duerstock <jason.duerstock at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That's pretty slick.  Not directly related, but have you stumbled
> across why HFS+ volumes aren't bootable on m68k machines?  I looked at
> it a long time ago and I think it's just a "we don't want it" decision
> vs. something technical.
> 
>> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 3:31 AM Elliot Nunn <elliotnunn at fastmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have had some success with this.
>> 
>> https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/59570-backporting-hfs-to-mac-os-80-and-earlier/
>> 
>> https://github.com/elliotnunn/HFSPlusBackport
>> 
>> Happy hacking,
>> 
>> Elliot
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