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On Fri, 5 Dec 2014, Gene Cumm wrote: > >> mostly in C and be BIOS-only) or making the MirOS kernel act like > >> either an MBOOT kernel or a Linux kernel (for their boot protocols), The MirBSD _bootloader_ (not kernel) can act as a Multiboot kernel. It can then use disc access (not PXE), or you can pass it the ?real? kernel, but also e.g. configuration files, as Multiboot modules, which are made available as a pseudo-filesystem inside that loader. > If so: http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/M...

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 21:26 -0500, Gene Cumm wrote: > >> > Thanks, that works! How do I use that in the generic case? >> > The ?pxebsd.0? file can be called as? >> > >> > ? PXE loader >> > ? COMBOOT (16-bit) >> > ? DOS .COM >> > ? Multiboot

> On Fri, 5 Dec 2014, Gene Cumm wrote: > > > >> mostly in C and be BIOS-only) or making the MirOS kernel act like > > >> either an MBOOT kernel or a Linux kernel (for their boot protocols), > > The MirBSD _bootloader_ (not kernel) can act as a Multiboot kernel. > It can then use disc access (not PXE), or you can pass it the "real" > kernel, but also e.g. configuration files, as Multiboot modules, > which are made available as a pseudo-filesystem inside that loader. > > > If so: http:...

On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 21:26 -0500, Gene Cumm wrote: > > Thanks, that works! How do I use that in the generic case? > > The ?pxebsd.0? file can be called as? > > > > ? PXE loader > > ? COMBOOT (16-bit) > > ? DOS .COM > > ? Multiboot (although it switches back to 16-bit mode immediately) > > ? from its own bootsector, if installed on disc (blocklist)