On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:20:09PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> yes. if you inspect the boot loader, you'll note that it has to copy down
> the kernel into it's final destination while the MMU is still up, else
> it would have to find the physical addresses of the kernel... which is
> possibly split...
> 
> (Hm - now that we have a two-stage bootloader, this might even be possible.
>  I should investigate this.)

  Reading this, I get the impression that the only correct way to boot into
  NetBSD is to use the bootblocks with its two stage approach. Is this
  correct? AFAIK, that concept is also tied to the amiga graphics, which
  is a problem if there is no monitor supporting their output. But maybe
  I missed an important detail.

  Gunther