From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 18 5: 6:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5ED414BD3; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 05:06:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (beefcake.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.12]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA28764; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 00:05:46 +1100 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 00:05:28 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Takahashi Yoshihiro Cc: marcel@scc.nl, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world is failed on pc98 In-Reply-To: <19991212221111Q.nyan@dd.catv.ne.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message