On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 07:24:06PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 17:35, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:28:04PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote: > > > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 19:11, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > > Hello All, > > > > > > > > this adds to the MIPS system emulation: > > > > - Harddisk emulation, including MSDOS partition labels. > > > > > > Why do you need the bootsector bits? IIUC this was an x86 specific hack > > > to make the x86 bios load the kernel passed with -kernel. > > > The MIPS emulation jumps directly to the loaded kernel, so this should > > > not be necessary. > > > > That's the current state since there is no real mips firmware, but Qemu > > should also be able to boot from an image. E.g. Linux/MIPS on > > DECstations uses MSDOS disklabels. > > I don't see how providing a fake an x86 boot sector would help this. > Presumably the DECstation firmware just knows how to load an image from disk.
It loads a block sector list from the bootsector which points to the second stage bootloader. Thiemo _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
