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From: Alex deVries <adevries@linuxcare.com>
To: Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Format of bootable Indy CDs?
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:20:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D935DE6.7020206@linuxcare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020926171033.GA13337@paradigm.rfc822.org

Florian Lohoff wrote:
> The firmware loads an ecoff file from a volume header - The volume
> header is a special partition with a "minimalistic" filesystem
> in it - This can be modified by "dvhtool". 

Okay.  I see an example of that mentioned in your mail in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2002/debian-mips-200204/msg00056.html
.  That seems to match with an EFS volume header.

So making a tool that writes the 8k volume header is easy.  If I 
understand properly, that points to a filename on the EFS filesystem 
that follows it.

What open source tools do we have to create such an EFS filesystem?

> If you plan to work on this - Feel free to come around in
> Oldenburg this weekend - We will have a Kernel Hacker meeting
> in the University Oldenburg. I'll bring a Burner and CD-RW's 
> with me to test this.

Sadly, I have other plans this weekend.


- Alex



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Alex deVries
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-26 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-26  7:32 Format of bootable Indy CDs? Alex deVries
2002-09-26 17:10 ` Florian Lohoff
2002-09-26 19:20   ` Alex deVries [this message]
2002-09-26 20:56     ` Ralf Baechle
2002-09-26 21:03       ` Alex deVries
2002-09-26 21:31         ` Ralf Baechle
2002-09-26 22:17     ` Florian Lohoff
2002-09-27  0:23   ` Mike Nugent
2002-09-27  1:52     ` Florian Lohoff
2002-09-27 16:00 ` Florian Lohoff
2002-09-27 16:06   ` Florian Lohoff
2002-09-27 21:08     ` Alex deVries
2002-09-27 21:17       ` Florian Lohoff
2002-09-27 21:51       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-09-27 16:22   ` Alex deVries
2002-09-27 17:20     ` Len Sorensen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-26 22:29 Michael Hill

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