In message <Pine.OSF.4.10.10005161147500.310594-100000@neptune.niwa.cri.nz> Wayne Knowles writes:
: environment was usable.  I was hoping the standalone loader would give me
: a remote debugger (which it didn't), so I went onto building ecoff kernels
: directly. 

Most of the arc bios implementations won't do raw disk accesses
reliably.  The environment is somewhat unusable for this.  I suppose
that one could boot a ELF formatted kernel off a FAT or cd9660 disk.

Warner