On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 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.
Thanks, but then I have a question: how a bootloading on DECstations
works? so, where do prom finds a bootblock? does it have a direct
knowledge of partitions?
Sergey
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