Did you manage to conduct experiments with NetBoot?
I've been doing this for a while and tried my luck on all server versions, starting with OS X Server Rhapsody 1.0 on Beige G3 and ending with Mac OS X Server 10.5 on G5 DualCore. The NetBoot package for OS X Server Rhapsody 1.0 contains Mac OS 8.5.1 and it boots perfectly over the network on the G3 BW that I have.
OS X Server 10.0 - 10.2 looked strange, in some moments it was not even immediately clear how to configure it, because with each version everything changed rapidly.
I plan to publish my experiments on the blog as soon as I win over laziness.
I did not have success. Here is what I tried:
This produces a setup where my Sawtooth successfully NetBoots 9.2 as provided by the package.
I copied my existing working System 7.5.5 and 7.6 installations with the correct CHRP System Enabler (and tbxi) into the NetBoot HD disk image that the package installed. I then used the bless command on the 7.6 system folder.
However, NetBoot uses the Mac OS ROM tbxi file from the nbi being booted, not from the disk image. I tried booting with three different versions here:
| ROM | Result |
| Patched 2.5.1 | The system boots from the internal drive. |
| NetBoot package 9.6.1 | 9.2 NetBoots successfully. 7.6 and 7.5.5 fail to boot with the "This startup disk will not work on this Macintosh model" message. |
| Patched 10.2.1 | 9.2 NetBoots successfully. 7.6 and 7.5.5 fail to boot with the "This startup disk will not work on this Macintosh model" message. |
The good news is that the 10.2.1 patched tbxi works. Unfortunately, it seems that the enabler isn't being found when NetBooting, for some reason. I'm not entirely sure why.
