Subject: Re: Booting an old 4D/35
To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
From: Christopher SEKIYA <wileyc@rezrov.net>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 11/07/2006 12:06:51
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:20:09AM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:

> Is this because sash can't boot from ELF ?

The NetBSD bootloader currently needs ARCBIOS to work.  It's probably
possible to frob the bootloader to work with the IP12 ROM routines; I looked
at it a bit but didn't make any headway.

Workaround is to put your kernel into the volume header and boot that instead
of ip2xboot/sash.

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-- Chris
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