Quoting Brian Durant <durant@cbn.net.id>:

- AFAIK you can't boot these "Old World Macintoshes" without BootX.

I believe it is possible to adjust the firmware to do this, but I don't know

how. Anybody with ideas?

Can't help you with firmware-boot, but there is a method which is a derivative of BootX, called miboot. It requires a very small HFS partition on your disk, where you put a fake Mac-like system folder, whose system file is actually a boot application. It is accompanied by a kernel file. You do have to have a MacOS at first, in order to change the resources in that system file, to read the correct kernel file and pass the correct kernel parameters (mainly video settings and root partition). Once you have done that, and chosen that System folder as your boot, you won't need to have MacOS on that computer again, unless you change video settings etc., so you should probably have a MacOS boot CD with ResEdit on it, lying around for emergencies, but that's about it. Herouth