boot images in 10.2 |
October, 18, 2002 12:45 PM |
gregjsmith |
Is it safe to apply a boot image to a XPF powered machine? If so where are the XPF boot logos? Or better yet the PowerComputing, UMAX, etc logos? |
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RE: boot images in 10.2 |
October, 21, 2002 9:38 AM |
OSXGuru |
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The boot image (i.e. the happy Mac etc.) is drawn by BootX. XPostFacto installs a custom BootX, so the hacks for modifying Apple's BootX won't work with it. At the moment, the image data is statically compiled into BootX, so to modify it you either need to hack the binary, or modify the source itself (it is open source, after all). I have been thinking that it might be useful to use a different boot image than Apple's BootX does. It would sometimes assist in troubleshooting if people could tell me whether my custom BootX is running (and which version). And I think that it ought to be possible to load an image from disk--after all, BootX can load files from disk. So I expect that I will do something different about boot images in XPostFacto 3. What I may do is draw the "Apple" boot image first, and then load a different boot image from disk. (And that image could then be customized easily as people wish). |
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