Re: Psion 5mx Bootloader for NetBSD

[Alexander Schreiber <als%thangorodrim.ch@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 06:29:55PM +0200, Joerg B wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been trying for a long time to boot NetBSD on a Psion Series 5mx
> Pro, but I am stuck at the boot loader stage.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the NetBSD/epoc32 port, which lists the 5mx Pro
> as supported, needs e32boot.exe (plus the accompanying files) to start
> the kernel. The original binaries that KIYOHARA Takashi announced in
> 2012 at
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/kiyohara/epoc32
> return a 404 error now. I have found the source in the NetBSD tree
> (sys/arch/epoc32/stand/e32boot), but no pre-built binary.

The only relevant looking things in the Internet Archive I've found are:
 https://web.archive.org/web/20140831123523/http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/kiyohara/epoc32/euhal/euhal.exe
 https://web.archive.org/web/20150928170437/http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/kiyohara/epoc32/cross-psion.tar.gz

The cross-psion tools are mentioned in 
 https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2013/04/21/msg017973.html
as needed to build e32boot.

The euhal.exe is mentioned in
 https://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2012/08/08/msg020815.html

At least euhal.exe is a Psion Series 5 executable according to file,
no idea if that stuff is of any help.

Kind regards,
           Alex.
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