On Jul 13, 2005, at 4:59 PM, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
Index: kern/dl.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/grub/grub2/kern/dl.c,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -p -r1.10 dl.c
--- kern/dl.c 14 Feb 2005 18:41:33 - 1.10
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Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> Which model do you have? I hear that most UltraSparc models cannot boot from
> a
> floppy due to a bug in OpenBoot. Therefore, when I installed GNU/Linux into a
> UltraSparc machine, I used netboot.
I have an Ultra 10 (l
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 15:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was wondering about sectors 62 & 63 (counting from 0).
> On my laptop (that had windows wiped the minute I got it),
> I notice that there is a MSWIN4.1 boot record in sector 63
> (I think it actually flows over the next 2 sectors also).
I
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 20:41, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
> I'm afraid a stage 1 -like thing will be needed on usparc.
You are right. On SparcStation, the firmware loads only 512 bytes like PC as a
boot sector. So you need to make boot.img separately. The difference is that
there is no "safe place
James Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've downloaded all the IA-64 manuals and EFI docs from Intel, and I'm
> studying the FreeBSD and Linux Itanium sources. But I may need some
> help along the way if anyone here programs the IA-64.
It seems there is an EFI implementation available for
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Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> Well, the bootstrap on i386-pc is complicated, because PC BIOS sucks. On
> other
> architectures, this can be simplified very much.
I'm afraid a stage 1 -like thing will be needed on usparc. I have found
few docs about th
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As can be seen in the attached common linux disk layout diagram,
sigh, that 16KiB in the diagram should be 32KiB.
Anyway you get the idea...
Actually do we have 32,256 bytes to use?
I was wondering about sectors 62 & 63 (counting from 0).
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