Could we not just make an image file with an arcboot header and burn that to cd? On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 10:10, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:32:26AM -0400, Alex deVries wrote: > > I'm curious about the possibility of making a Linux installer for the > > Indy that boots from CD; is there any description of the format of > > bootable IRIX CDs out there? What does the firmware expect? > > The firmware loads an ecoff file from a volume header - The volume > header is a special partition with a "minimalistic" filesystem > in it - This can be modified by "dvhtool". > > I succeeded in booting an indy by creating a fake "volume header" > on the ISO filesystem CD. (ISO Specifies the first 8k of an image > to be for the bootloader and partitioning etc). Then i created > directory entrys for the kernels on the iso in the pseudo > volume header. As the ISO filesystems needs all files to be > contigues (same for the volume header) the machine was able > to boot from the cd although booting the ecoff kernel image > including the ramdisk directly. Having a bootloader would > be much nicer. > > > I know that sash is involved somehow... > > "sash" is proprietary IRIX. The IRIX CDs are EFS BTW. > > If you plan to work on this - Feel free to come around in > Oldenburg this weekend - We will have a Kernel Hacker meeting > in the University Oldenburg. I'll bring a Burner and CD-RW's > with me to test this. > I'd be interested in working on this, but I'm not 100% sure that I know enough about my indigo2 yet. I'll start by seeing what I can do with arcboot. -- Mike Nugent Programmer/Author mike@illuminatus.org "I believe the use of noise to make music will increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments which will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard." -- composer John Cage, 1937
