The highlights for this release are:
- Old World support (real hardware tested only on PDQ, your mileage may vary for G3 beige),
- support for booting NT from Startup Disk in OS8/9/X
- OS8/9 drivers patched to work correctly without the special reboot option - allows for booting into OS9 to format all Mac partitions after partitioning
- NTFS formatting now works with NT 3.x
Detailed changelist:
- halgoss: PCI bugfixes cherrypicked from halunin
- halgoss: On laptops, any reboot attempt will now shut down.
- arcloaderold_grackle: Initial release. (c62a413)
- arcfw: Updated disk partitioning for Old World support (c62a413, 506881c)
- arcfw: MESH SCSI driver bugfixes (43b8459)
- arcfw: On laptops: any reboot attempt will now shut down. (c62a413, 33ef0e6)
- arcfw: Fixes issues when installing 10.4.6 and later (9d63635)
- arcfw: Patches classic MacOS drivers when writing to disk to ignore any MBR on IDE drives (e659a53)
- arcfw: Allow OSX to mount the ARC system partition (e659a53)
- arcfw: NT ARC firmware boot partition now shows up in Startup Disk (e659a53)
- arcfw: Fix NTFS formatter to support NT 3.5x (e659a53)
- Various other small bugfixes: General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.
For supported laptops, any "reboot" will now shut down the system. This was implemented because of issues with rebooting on PDQ, and because these laptops have no way to hard power off other than removing power or a PMU reset (which is awkward on Lombard in particular).
There are now two ISOs included. Use nt_arcfw_grackle.iso on New World systems and nt_arcfw_grackle_ow.iso on Old World systems.