On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Takahashi Yoshihiro wrote:
> The 'loader' program is only transplanted for pc98. The boot2
> (sys/boot/pc98/boot2) is the mostly same as the old biosboot
> (sys/pc98/boot/biosboot) .
>
> > boot2 is already capable of loading ELF, right?
>
> No.
I use a modified version of biosboot which is capable of loading ELF.
biosboot has many improvements on i386/boot2. E.g., its C source
files actually have comments apart from copyrights.
> > Isn't it therefore enough to just compile boot2 as ELF?
>
> No.
>
> > In other words, what are the problems?
>
> We need to transplant the new boot2 (sys/boot/i386/boot2) to pc98 to
> compile as ELF.
I think you only need to compile it to ELF and maybe use btxld instead
of dd to strip the headers. It can then load `loader'.
Bruce
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