I think the other side really is for those who don't want to boot the MacOS
at all.  I have had LinuxPPC for 2 years now booting from OF and I almost
got rid of my MacOS partition long ago but thought the best of it.  Now that
I have R5 I am glad I could at least use MacOS to get it installed but I
would still like to have a solution where I would not NEED the MacOS to
boot.

Amen! I have no mac partition, as I haven't since day one.

Furthermore, beyond having multiple OS's like NetBSD and BeOS I still have
my OLD release of LinuxPPC.  It is WAY older than even R4 and the only way I
have of booting it is through OF.  

I boot R5 via OF. =)

I think the general concensus on this issue is the USERS want BootX or
something easy while the Developers and "Power Users," if you will, want to
have the flexibility of OF.

I don't know... It just seems plain silly to me, that to install one OS
you need another. Nothing to do w/ the users.

Anyway it is just my humble opinion that both should be supported.  However,
as a USER hoping to be a "Power User" and even devloper some day, I would
like to see some documentation on how to use OF to boot R5, ANY URL's?
My main question is "HOW THE HECK DOES OF WORK?"

There is a little bit of info on the apple site about OF:

technote 1061 - http://devworld.apple.com/dev/technotes/tn/tn1061.html
technote 1062 - http://devworld.apple.com/dev/technotes/tn/tn1062.html
technote 1063 - http://devworld.apple.com/dev/technotes/tn/tn1063.html

Chris Ridd also posted some OF command info from Sun's site a while ago.

        http://www.sun.com/pci/pci/pcidevkit/fcodeaac.ps

and there's an OpenBoot 3.x supplement for PCI at:

        http://www.sun.com/pci/pci/pcidevkit/obp_3aag.ps

And there's also a sample PCI Fcode driver at:

        http://www.sun.com/pci/pci/pcidevkit/samplaan.fth


I wish you good luck... Maybe you could come up w/ a way to boot from a
selection of OS'es via OF. But the mac crowd will still wine, as there is
no icons to click on in OF... =/

Sean


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