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Re-enabled HP-PA PALO boot preparations

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Thomas Schmitt
2014-04-09 07:31:47 +00:00
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@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
@c man .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
@c man .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
@c man .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
@c man .TH XORRISO 1 "Version 1.3.7, Apr 07, 2014"
@c man .TH XORRISO 1 "Version 1.3.7, Apr 09, 2014"
@c man .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
@c man .\"
@c man .\" Some roff macros, for reference:
@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ MBR, GPT and APM are combinable. APM occupies the first 8 bytes of
MBR boot code. All three do not hamper El Torito booting from CDROM.
@*
There is support for further facilities:
MIPS Big Endian (SGI), MIPS Little Endian (DEC), SUN SPARC.
MIPS Big Endian (SGI), MIPS Little Endian (DEC), SUN SPARC, HP-PA.
Those are mutually not combinable and also not combinable with MBR, GPT,
or APM.
@*
@ -3406,7 +3406,7 @@ can assume overwriteable media.
There are booting mechanisms which do not use an El Torito record but rather
start at the first bytes of the image: PC-BIOS MBR for hard-disk-like devices,
MIPS Volume Header for old SGI computers, DEC Boot Block for old DECstation,
SUN Disk Label for SPARC machines.
SUN Disk Label for SPARC machines, HP-PA boot sector for HP PA-RISC machines.
@*
The boot firmware EFI may use programs which are located in a FAT filesystem
and announced by an MBR partition table entry.
@ -3684,6 +3684,29 @@ of the given file to be written after the SUN Disk Label. Both numbers are
counted in bytes. The address is written as 64 bit big-endian number to
byte 0x228. The size is written as 32 bit big-endian number to byte 0x230.
@*
@cindex HP-PA boot sector, production
@strong{hppa_cmdline=}text sets the PALO command line for HP-PA. Up to 1023
characters are permitted by default. With hppa_hdrversion=4 the limit is 127.
@*
Note that the first five hppa_ bootspecs are mandatory, if any of the
hppa_ bootspecs is used. Only hppa_hdrversion= is allowed to be missing.
@*
@strong{hppa_bootloader=}iso_rr_path designates the given path as HP-PA
bootloader file.
@*
@strong{hppa_kernel_32=}iso_rr_path designates the given path as HP-PA
32 bit kernel file.
@*
@strong{hppa_kernel_64=}iso_rr_path designates the given path as HP-PA
64 bit kernel file.
@*
@strong{hppa_ramdisk=}iso_rr_path designates the given path as HP-PA
RAM disk file.
@*
@strong{hppa_hdrversion=}number chooses between PALO header version 5 (default)
and version 4.
For the appropriate value see in PALO source code: PALOHDRVERSION.
@*
@strong{mips_discard} and @strong{sparc_discard}
revoke any boot file declarations made for mips or mipsel resp. sparc.
This removes the ban on production of other boot blocks.