Re: bootblocks

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 10:12:29AM +0200, Houten K.H.C. van (Karel) wrote:

> - 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.
> 
> What would be easier?

Checkout libext2fs which has everything you're going to need.  Somewhere
on {www,ftp}.linux.sgi.com there is also a bootloader for the Visual
Workstation which demonstrates how to use that library in the absence
of a UNIX environment.

  Ralf