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> I did a little research on bootloaders, and found the selection to be |
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> very platform specific. Here's what I dug up: |
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> x86 : LILO, GRUB ROLO, Loadlin, Etherboot, LINUXBIOS, U-Boot, RedBoot |
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> ARM : Compaq's bootldr, blob, U-Boot, RedBoot |
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> PowerPC: U-Boot, RedBoot |
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> MIPS : PMON, RedBoot |
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> SuperH : sh-boot, RedBoot |
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> m68k : RedBoot |
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Wow. Good research job. I'd just add that it can also be quite specific |
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to your build architecture (the utilities you use to create, transfer, |
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flash your builds) - I have one that doesn't even use a bootloader - the |
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kernel is flashed into memory location 0x0...0, which is the boot vector - |
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hence the kernel is its own boot loader. |
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We might need to look at specific platforms as well as architectures to |
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see what options offer the broadest range of possibilities. It may come |
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down to a whole bunch of HOWTO paragraphs - one for each device/platform. |
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www.clanarmstrong.com |
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