Re: root-be-0.03.tar.gz

["William J. Earl" <wje@fir.engr.sgi.com>]

ralf@uni-koblenz.de writes:
 > On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 01:04:30PM +0100, Oliver Frommel wrote:
 > 
 > > > Could we not modify sash to know about ext2?
 > > > I thought I read somewhere that we could get sash sources/info, which
 > > > would help a lot.
 > > > 
 > > 
 > > sash is located in the volumen header afaik(?)
 > > wouldn't it be possible to replace sash by another (possibly free) 
 > > bootloader?
 > 
 > Basically we could Milo for the Indy also.  Milo even has the required
 > features to be built as ECOFF executable thus supporting old machines
 > where the ARC proms can't load ELF.
 > 
 > Q: What filesystem types are supported directly by the ARC firmware in the
 > ROMs?

      In general, just bootp over Ethernet, tape files, and the volume header.
Some machines support floppy (DOS?) and CDROM (iso9660).