On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:35:04PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Sorry, no good. It wouldn't even show on the menu. :( > > So, BootX doesn't "execute" the kernel, is that why the embedded decompressor > doesn't work? Probably just copy the image to memory and a stack pointer? what you are trying to use is probably the .coff format, which has a small OpenFirmware bootloader piggybacked on a gzipped kernel image (or something resembling that, im only vaguly familier with .coff format) i have no idea the details of the black magic BootX uses to load a kernel but im fairly sure it parses the elf file itself and does all the work internally. it doesn't try and emulate OF and execute a OF binary. bootx might be able to handle plain gzipped kernels im not sure about that though (it would be trivial to implement) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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