On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:52:31AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >Hi, > >while looking for test images with boot sectors for mips and mipsel, >i notice that > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.4.0/mipsel/iso-cd/debian-7.4.0-mipsel-netinst.iso >delivers an ISO image without any boot sector. > >The file > .disk/mkisofs >inside the image does not show the option -mipsel-boot which would >be needed to generate a DEC Boot Block for MIPS Little Endian. > >Is this intentional ? >If so: >- Are there problems with the boot sectors produced by xorriso ? >- Is no boot sector needed for debian arch mipsel ? > How else is it supposed to boot the ISO ?
Hi Thomas, It's down to the following in debian-cd/tools/boot/wheezy/boot-mipsel: # Mipsel is currently not bootable in wheezy, so bail out here echo "Mipsel booting disabled, check with Sledge or fjp" exit 0 We stopped building d-i for any of the older mipsel hardware that booted off CD quite a while back, in fact. There's no problems I can see with the mipsel boot code in xorriso, we're just not using it at the moment. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
