[haiku-development] Re: Haiku Bootstrap Architecture

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 14:35:26 +0200

Maxim Sokhatsky <maxim.sokhatsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How does U-Boot and OpenFirmware loads /system/haiku_loader ? It is on 
> BFS
> partition and hardware firmwares (including x86 BIOS) do not know 
> anything
> about it. It must be contignuous or something, placed in special 
> place on
> BFS partition. Could you explain more deeply ?

Since they don't usually support BFS, you would need to place the 
haiku_loader ELF binary at a place they can access.
Usually, you would have a small boot partition that contains the boot 
loaders of the different systems.

Bye,
   Axel.


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