Re: bootblocks

["Sergey N. Lapin" <slapin@ftp.gis.karelia.ru>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Houten K.H.C. van (Karel) wrote:

> 
> Hi Sergey,
> 
> slapin@ftp.gis.karelia.ru wrote:
> > hi,
> > Any ideas about porting NetBSD/pmax bootblocks to linux?
> > ideas to install bootblocks without installing NETbsd itself?
> 
> We seem to have some options:
> 
> - Porting NetBSD bootblocks:
>    + porting standalone libs to linux/mips
>    + changing ufs code to ext2fs
> 
> - Porting silo (Sparc two-stage loader)
>    + changing sparc assembler code to mips
>    + changing sun prom calls to decstation prom calls.
> 

Porting LILO
     + changing i386 specific code to mips
     + changing BIOS calls to prom
     + etc?
:)