On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Olaf Seibert wrote:

: > : [Remark: there is a 2nd method booting method which might be useful to us:
: > :  write a AmigaOS filesystem that's loaded into the RDB as a FSHD and a series
: > :  of LSEG blocks associated with the PART block of the partition.
: >
: > IMHO, I don't think this would be particularly useful, because you'd have to
: > make it a real AmigaOS object file with relocs (LoadSeg compatible) and deal
: > a little more with the internals of dos.library.  Blecch...  :)
:
: Wasn't there a BSD file system for AmigaDOS made years ago? I remember
: it was a bit behind already then, since it was for the previous on-disk
: layout, but it should be possible.

Yes, but it was an AmigaOS filesystem, not a NetBSD program.

The overhead of doing the compilation of an AmigaOS-native binary simply for
a NetBSD bootblock is far more than just compiling it under NetBSD and
stuffing the code at the beginning of the filesystem (as NetBSD does for
>half the other platforms).

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