From 71dc8760ff4de5f365330d1bc571d934deb54af9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Igor Pashev Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 05:04:42 +0400 Subject: Imported Upstream version 1.1.11 --- doc/genisoimage/README.mipsboot | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/genisoimage/README.mipsboot (limited to 'doc/genisoimage/README.mipsboot') diff --git a/doc/genisoimage/README.mipsboot b/doc/genisoimage/README.mipsboot new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1e5227a --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/genisoimage/README.mipsboot @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +# README.mipsboot Steve McIntyre 2004/07/19 + +The mips/SGI boot support allows you to create a bootable CD which +will work with big-endian mips SGI machines, for example bootable +installation media. + +The method used for this is the same as in genisovh, a tool to make +CDs bootable for Linux on SGI. + +The SGI firmware reads the first 512-byte "sector" off a disk and +parses information from a volume descriptor header in that sector. The +information in question is the location (start sector) and length of +bootable kernel images; up to 15 are supported. + +The firmware will load and execute kernels listed. (I'm not sure what +it will do if more than one kernel is listed - it may display a boot +menu). + +To use the SGI boot support code in genisoimage, simply specify the kernel +file locations (relative to the CD root) as follows: + +genisoimage ... -mips-boot \ + ... + -mips-boot \ + -o mips.iso mips-files + -- cgit v1.2.3