Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:36:06 -0700
From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc: ia64@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Porting the loader
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On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 20:34:57 +0000, Doug Rabson wrote:
> Since nothing seemed to be happening here (hope I'm not stepping on any
> toes), I decided to start porting the loader. I now have the thing at the
> stage where it initialises the console and memory allocator and actually
> reaches the 'ok' prompt. Can't do much else with it yet though :-).
> 
> If anyone is interested, I can send the source. I can't commit it just yet
> since I'm using some Intel header files and I'm waiting for clarification
> on the license for them.
> 
> I suppose I'll have to buy an LS120 drive next since that seems to be the
> only way of getting information onto the beast. Fortunately the loader
> fits easily on a normal floppy.

Another way to do it would be to install Linux on there and use a DOS
partition.

Both SuSE and RedHat use a DOS partition as the place where they put their
kernels, etc.  It's mounted under /boot for SuSE and /boot/efi for RedHat
if you use the default install.

So you can just ftp stuff over and copy it up to the dos partition.  EFI
knows how to read dos partitions, so you can just do something like:

fs0:
loader

(assuming it's called loader.efi)

Any idea whether FreeBSD will have to use the same scheme of having a DOS
partition in order to run the loader?

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org

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