Hands-on with two Apple Network Server prototype ROMs
Summary
This article provides an in-depth, hands-on look at Apple Network Server ROMs, exploring preproduction and production ROMs, Open Firmware behavior, ROM dumping, and cross OS boot experiments on a PowerPC-based server. It covers hardware teardown, ROM organization, and the quirks of getting various OSes like Mac OS, AIX, and NT to boot, including the role of Boot Variables and ARC/HAL concepts.