BootX (Linux)

This article is about a bootloader used to boot Linux on PowerPC Macs and is not to be confused with BootX (Apple), a similarly-named Mac OS X bootloader.

BootX is a graphical bootloader developed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt, which runs as an application or an extension to Mac OS 8 and 9 that allows Old World Apple computers to dualboot Linux. It uses code derived from quik, a replacement boot loader for PCI-based Old World Apple computers using Open Firmware.

BootX requires a Linux kernel and compressed ramdisk image to be available in the Mac's system folder. It will then automatically choose which partition becomes the root partition.

See also

  • Quik, a replacement boot loader for loading Linux on PCI-based Old World Macs

References

  • BootX at penguinppc.org
  • BootX on Macintosh Repository


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