Hi, 

I've been working with the people from xbox-linux to make Cromwell compile
and work from NetBSD. You can generate your own .BIN compiling Cromwell
on your favorite NetBSD/i386 machine. 

Nico. 

Miles Nordin writes: 

>>>>>> "hf" == Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de> writes:
>>>>>> "cl" == Christian Limpach <chris@pin.lu> writes:
> 
>     hf> What exactly is the problem - finding the start address? 
> 
>     hf> you may need to do relocation of the various sections 
> 
>     cl> you'll probably have to clear the bss early in locore.S 
> 
> I'm working on an XBox, too, but collaborating with my roomate to make
> it boot Linux.  Apparently this is also a challenge since all binary
> images of cromwell are out-of-date, and many things don't build or
> work properly, and of course everything is totally uncommented and
> undocumented, even compared to NetBSD's, um...occasional brevity and
> RTFS docs. 
> 
> Since there is already some grub in cromwell, maybe you want to try to
> steal grub's NetBSD loader.  Maybe it's possible to slap something
> together that works, using grub but without fully understanding the
> NetBSD load/setup process yourself. 
> 
> cromwell does not use grub to load Linux---it only uses grub's
> filesystem code.  I speculate this is because there is real-mode code
> in grub and in the Linux header that gets loaded at 0x90000 that won't
> run without a PeeCee BIOS, but I don't really know. 
> 
> AFAIK for FATX and iso9660 cromwell doesn't use grub at all.  It kind
> of pisses me off because their boasting comes close to ``cromwell _is_
> grub'' which makes one think it's going to suck less than it actually
> does.  But it's still sorta okay. 
> 
> HTH. :( 
> 
> at least you don't have to deal with ``gentoox BY SH3LL4X!!1!''