Re: Accepted arcboot 0.3.6 (mips source)

[Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>]

Hi,
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:58:15PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> I'm looking at what needs to be be done for mips support in
> debian-installer, and it appears we probably need arcboot support.
> 
> Currently the installers prepare the disk image, then present a menu
> option to run lilo, or grub (which get run in a chroot of the target).
> Would the same work for arcboot?
> ( I do not have a mips box to test, but could write the package for
> testing).
Yes (for big endian mips at least, mipsel uses delo). Arcboot gets
installed into the volume header of the disk (arboot's postinst shows
how this is done). I'd be great if you could give it a try!
 -- Guido