On Sat, 13 May 2000, Simon Burge wrote:

> > also, installboot alpha (as of 1.4.2) does not support -i  or -s.  Since   
> >  -i isn't supported, the pmax seems out of the question as part of a   
> > multiboot.
> 
> The pmax and alpha usually want to share some sectors near the start of
> the disk.  With the -i and -a options (instead of -s as you said?), the

the -s is for the alpha installboot which syncs the checksum with sparc.


> kernel.  Also, it should be possible to make a version of the pmax
> installboot that will run on other architectures (but this hasn't been
> done to my knowledge) - all it does is write some values to various
> parts of the iso image.
I tried to build it on both a sparc and i386 and failed, but haven't had
time to dig into it.  It would be really great to ship a unified
installboot program though.

-Dan