Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753225AbeAEWA7 (ORCPT + 1 other); Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:00:59 -0500 Received: from 216-12-86-13.cv.mvl.ntelos.net ([216.12.86.13]:46528 "EHLO brightrain.aerifal.cx" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753080AbeAEWA6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:00:58 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:00:45 -0500 From: Rich Felker To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Rob Landley , Yoshinori Sato , linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [J-core] [PATCH v5 00/22] sh: LANDISK and R2Dplus convert to device tree Message-ID: <20180105220045.GS1627@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <1467564402-2649-1-git-send-email-ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> <8c75b447-fc14-871e-1a04-733132527b65@landley.net> <20171117191706.GF1627@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <7193aa1b-50e3-11d4-f93d-f567e2e06b8c@physik.fu-berlin.de> <20180105212857.GR1627@brightrain.aerifal.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 10:47:34PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 01/05/2018 10:28 PM, Rich Felker wrote: > > I'm trying to reproduce this but can't find any documentation for > > cross-LILO in [2], much less any code except possibly the binary > > "lilo.x86" in [1]. Googling cross-lilo isn't finding anything > > meaningful except this thread. Is there anywhere to find source and > > information on what it's doing, or is this going to be something I > > have to reverse-engineer? > > It's just LILO for x86, nothing fancy. You could as well just download > LILO, build it for x86 and then use it to install the bootloader onto > the harddisk/CF medium you are using on the LANDISK. > > Source code for LILO can be found here: https://lilo.alioth.debian.org/ > > It's a simple bootloader which works with blocklists. OK, it's good to know that the lilo program is just stock lilo. So is the provided boot.b-selk file (and an appropriate lilo.conf) all you need to get it installed on a disk? Rich