[tech] Netbooting MacOSX

[David Cake]

At 10:53 AM +0800 1/6/02, proXy scribbled:
>Personally, I'm running out of ideas on how to do this.
>
>What I want to do is netboot a MacOSX install cd from installation on a
>CD-less machine (Adrian's iMac).
>
>Between myself, Dagobah and coxy we have tried numerous things. We can
>make it netboot OS9 using a file called 'Mac OS ROM' (look at
>mussel:/space/Mac OS ROM.old) and the OS9 install image.
>However we have had no luck booting OSX.
>What we have been trying is replacing Mac OS ROM with a file called
>BootX (look at mussel:/space/BootX)
>The image we are using for this is the entire OSX cd image.

	I think Bootx needs to specifically boot to a mach_kernel, 
rather than a full CD image.

>It doesn't work; giving an error that is represented by a black and
>white icon, a picture of a folder with a Mac on it broken in half.

	Yep, isn't finding a kernel file.

>Does anyone know anything about Netbooting OSX??
>Any tips or tricks?
>Or a document (so far I haven't found anything on google)??

	I've only really found the instructions on this page.
http://www.xappeal.org/hardware.shtml
	The instructions for the 7300 contain some pointers.
	Cheers
		David