On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:33:18PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:43:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
>> > I'm sure they're, so can't we go for a new multiarch containing hppa
>> > and ia64 only or even i386, hppa and ia64 ?
>
>> Hmm, keeping i386 on it is an interesting idea. Or it could have alpha,
>> hppa, and ia64, for the big/old/weird/64 bit iron multiarch cd. :-)
>
>I was just thinking that alpha/hppa/ia64 would be an interesting "HP-themed"
>multiarch CD. Sounds like this would be fun to work on. :) I have no idea
>if the CD booting for these archs can coexist naturally, though.
Bad news I'm afraid. I've worked through the mkisofs boot code again,
and I get:
alpha: Writing alpha boot descriptor at extent 0
arm: No boot sector
amd64: Writing el torito VD sector at extent 17
hppa: Writing hppa boot descriptor at extent 0
i386: Writing el torito VD sector at extent 17
ia64: Writing el torito VD sector at extent 17
m68k: Writing hfs descriptor at extent 0
mips: Writing mips boot descriptor at extent 0
mipsel: Writing mipsel boot descriptor at extent 0
powerpc: Writing hfs descriptor at extent 0
s390: No boot sector
sparc: Writing sun boot descriptor at extent 0
Writing genboot sector at extent 1
I'm looking further to see if it's at all possible to get (e.g.) hppa
and alpha to live in the same boot sector, but it's really not likely.
>(Does weird iron contain strange quarks in its nuclei?)
*grin*
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