Subject: Re: Booting into installation on NEC MobilePro 770
To: Tyler Regas <tyler@pdahandyman.com>
From: Matthew Orgass <darkstar@city-net.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 11/11/2005 18:32:14
On 2005-11-11 tyler@pdahandyman.com wrote:

> I guess I'm just not grokking the process because the filesystem
> where the kernel resides isn't visible to Windows CE, so how can the
> HPCBOOT program see it? I wouldn't say I'm a *nix newbie, but I'm
> definitely in the Power User class. I've never even recompiled a
> kernel :)

  It uses libsa (sa = stand alone) to read the ffs partition when the path
starts with /, the same as many other bootloaders do.

Matthew Orgass
darkstar@city-net.com