for a boot device type; this gets the boot.ip32 booting a kernel off disk.
While here remove some unrolled string compares in favor of strncmp() to
make code more readable.
the ECOFF version of boot produced by `objcopy'. Using elf2ecoff make it
work, so use that instead. Also, don't bother stripping the bootblocks on
install (as that confuses strip, at least for the ECOFF one, and since the
build already strips them).
- Build an ECOFF version of the bootloader as "boot". As a temporary
measure (due to a bug in libbfd which has not yet been fixed, but
for which a work-around exists as a patch), install and ELF version
of the bootload as well as "boot.elf". "boot.elf" will go away once
the toolchain issue is resolved.
info along to the kernel (currently just the symbol table info).
- Don't bother with the startprog dance; we don't need to do anything
special, here, so just call the entry point directly.
- A bunch of random cleanup.
- It's perfectly legal to have an 8 byte volume filename; the trailing
NUL is not required in this case.
- Default the partition type to "4.2BSD", not "EFS".
simonb