Subject: Re: New bootblocks available for testing
To: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
From: Houten K.H.C. van (Karel) <K.H.C.vanHouten@research.kpn.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 03/29/1999 07:58:42
Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> Michael Hitch has toyed with the idea of doing a fixed block stage one,
> more for proof of concept than anything else.  On the pmax, it should be
> _extremely_ simple - the first sector contains a "boot map", that lists
> 61 groups of continuous blocks, a load address and an exec address...
> 
> Simon.

I've looked into that approach too, for loading linux on a DECStation,
but these 61 block-maps overlap the partition table. Did you solve that?

Regards,
Karel.


-- 
Karel van Houten

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The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better."
I can't understand why it won't work on my Linux computer. 
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