Re: [J-core] [PATCH v5 00/22] sh: LANDISK and R2Dplus convert to device tree

From: Rich Felker
Date: Fri Jan 05 2018 - 17:01:02 EST


On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 10:47:34PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 01/05/2018 10:28 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> > I'm trying to reproduce this but can't find any documentation for
> > cross-LILO in [2], much less any code except possibly the binary
> > "lilo.x86" in [1]. Googling cross-lilo isn't finding anything
> > meaningful except this thread. Is there anywhere to find source and
> > information on what it's doing, or is this going to be something I
> > have to reverse-engineer?
>
> It's just LILO for x86, nothing fancy. You could as well just download
> LILO, build it for x86 and then use it to install the bootloader onto
> the harddisk/CF medium you are using on the LANDISK.
>
> Source code for LILO can be found here: https://lilo.alioth.debian.org/
>
> It's a simple bootloader which works with blocklists.

OK, it's good to know that the lilo program is just stock lilo. So
is the provided boot.b-selk file (and an appropriate lilo.conf) all
you need to get it installed on a disk?

Rich