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The crazy new Apple machines are:

• i386
• EFI+ACPI based
• Bootstrapper only reads HFS+

and (Since 2006-04-05):

• Boot Camp Legacy VGA BIOS and El Torito MBR CDs.

  • Boots from the MBR. Sometimes.

Current implementations

GPL

• parted libparted/fs_hfs
• hfsplus libhfsp0
• linux/fs/hfsplus

Apple AFSL 2.0

• Darwin HFS+

Apple AFSL 1.1

• Apple disk

HFS (not plus)

• cdrtools/libhfs (from hfsutils v2.0)
• hfs-utils

currently at our disposal, we have:

• mkisofs

  • can produce a HFS overlay, but not HFS+ overlay

  • can bless an HFS file/directory, but not an HFS+ one

• Kernel HFS+ filesystem drivers
  • require root to build the FS, can't do overlay...

• hfstools package, which can't do formatting or anything much in the way of writing except for removing files

• Mac OSX, apparently this is how the http://www.mactel-linux.org/ guys built their CD.

Kamion tried doing a patch for the blessing, but it's probably the wrong thing:

• http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/tmp/31_hfs_bless_file.dpatch

Testing

Presently the only ways to test this is a good HFS+ image is to:

• get the image to mount under Linux
• test it in a real Mactel

Since I don't have a real Mactel, the second is hard.

How the mactel-linux CD is built:

<gimli> prepare the cd, copy files to an intel osx box, make mini hfs image, create cd
<gimli> loog at the addon.tar.bz2 on the live cd
<gimli> there are scripts inside it ;)
<gimli> the convert.sh is the intresting one you need to run on the intel osx box

hfsutils is lacking. You can *mkdir* make directories. Or you can *rm* delete files. Ho ho ho.

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html http://developer.apple.com/documentation/index.html#HEADING99-0 http://darwinsource.opendarwin.org/tarballs/apsl/bless-37.1.tar.gz sudo bless --folder "$DIR" --file "$FILE" --labelfile refit.volicon --setBoot