"Houten K.H.C. van (Karel)" wrote:

> 
> 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?

No - this is just an "in theory" at the moment...  Since the current
bootblocks understand the filesystem, there's no rush to tinker with
alternate boot schemes.

Simon.