Sakurao NEMOTO (nemossan@uitec.ac.jp) wrote:
: So, the following is MXboot/Linux, and if you have any interest in it,
: please try, but WITH YOUR OWN RISKS.  

Professor Nemoto-san was so kind as to present me, on my request, a copy
of MXBoot for Linux (the same as now posted, I guess). It works fine, but 
there are a few snags:

1. The first trap I fell into is that you should not use a symbolic link 
   for the image to boot from (/system/linux.sys by default).

2. The second bit is the reason why Lilo is so nice: MXBoot does not know
   about holes in the image, which most likely will be there because of 
   the 'cp' used to put the image in place. I had to use an old Minix cp
   to do the trick.

At present I can boot Linux from the hard disk. Oddly I now have trouble
with booting the Minix partition when chosen from the FDassist program.
Yet, as these problems are completely similar as with Lilo I guess the
problem is in the Minix partition. Funny that it will boot alright when
that Minix partition is active in the partition table.

: So, source-codes (CDIFFs from
: original Linux) are enough to understand for experienced users.

The sources are quite clear in case you can guess what need to be done.
Just the sources before doing things.

: Caution:  Assembling "mxpatch.c" will give warning-message, but no-problem,
:       If you want, modify the source-code by yourself, says iga@mix.

I only had one warning about a declared but not used variable c in the
function main(). Hardly something to be afraid of.

Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim `Blue Baron' van Dorst