Re: Flag day for bootloader + kernel?

Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sgimips
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:

> Quoting Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]>:
> 
> > - loading kernels on IP12 (which doesn't have ARCBIOS) is not tested at all
> >   (I wonder if argv[0] passed from BIOS is vaild or not on IP12)
> 
> It should be.

Hmm, can the argv[0] string be parsed by makebootdev()?
If it returns SGIVOLHDR partition, I hope "booted_partition = 0;" hack
would work.
(using OSLoadPartition environment first might break netboot)

> I wouldn't worry about it, though. I doubt anybody uses it ;)

Well, I guess sekiya-san also has it ;-)
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Izumi Tsutsui
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