On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 12:57:44PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >Steve McIntyre dijo [Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:04:54PM +0000]: >> Bad news I'm afraid. I've worked through the mkisofs boot code again, >> and I get: >> (...) >> 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. > >I might be stating the obvious, but the OpenBSD team (and I understand >it's Theo specifically who was responsable for this) spent a >nontrivial amount of time working how to make their CDs bootable in >every possible platform, with usually 3-4 architectures per >CD. Maybe (knowing their community is (even) more hostile than ours) >it's not an option to ask them for information on how they managed to >do this, but you could study a bit their ISO's layout. > >Their ISOs are not freely redistributable, but if you are interested, >I can snail-mail you some older releases (~4 year old, IIRC) I have >around here. Thanks, but there's no need to do that. Looking at their website I can see that all their latest CD sets claim to be bootable on "i386, amd64, macppc, sparc, and sparc64". I'm already doing 3 of those arches, and I'm really not that bothered about sparc... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll
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