[OpenBIOS] Booting SunOS from OpenBIOS

Tarl Neustaedter tarl-b2 at tarl.net
Tue Mar 26 17:12:13 CET 2013


On 2013-Mar-26 04:33 , Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
> Not a bootable ELF image
> Loading a.out image...
> Loaded 7680 bytes
> entry point is 0x4000
> bootpath: /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd at 0,0
>
> Jumping to entry point 00004000 for type 00000005...
> switching to new context:
> Unhandled Exception 0x00000007
> PC = 0x00401a04 NPC = 0x00401a08
> Stopping execution
>
>
> Is the OpenBIOS guess correct and SunOS 4.x actually does have an a.out loader?

It shouldn't be a.out. The bootloader (on blocks 1-15) of a Solaris disk 
is an fcode file (compiled forth).




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