Re: Custom boot loader stub

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:40:24 +0000 (UTC)
Eduardo Horvath <eeh%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

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> On Thu, 23 Oct 2025, Sad Clouds wrote:
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> > Which I guess is expected. When I have some spare time, I will try
> > loading the 2nd stage bootloader and may be using "chain" function
> > to execute that.
> 
> Why don't you just use the FCode bootblock?  You're going to have problems 
> fitting UFS reading code in 7.5 KB.
> 
> Eduardo

Hi, I'm not booting NetBSD, but learning how to boot my own minimal run
time environment. I never studied FCode, so it looks a bit gibberish to
me. I'm also not using file systems but reading boot binaries directly
from a block device, which cuts down on the binary size.