1 # README.mipsboot Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> 2004/07/19
3 The mips/SGI boot support allows you to create a bootable CD which
4 will work with big-endian mips SGI machines, for example bootable
7 The method used for this is the same as in genisovh, a tool to make
8 CDs bootable for Linux on SGI.
10 The SGI firmware reads the first 512-byte "sector" off a disk and
11 parses information from a volume descriptor header in that sector. The
12 information in question is the location (start sector) and length of
13 bootable kernel images; up to 15 are supported.
15 The firmware will load and execute kernels listed. (I'm not sure what
16 it will do if more than one kernel is listed - it may display a boot
19 To use the SGI boot support code in genisoimage, simply specify the kernel
20 file locations (relative to the CD root) as follows:
22 genisoimage ... -mips-boot <kernel file #1> \
24 -mips-boot <kernel file #n> \
25 -o mips.iso mips-files