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Hardware > First idea about how to multiboot with F2A

#9070 - Lord Graga - Sun Jul 27, 2003 9:49 pm

Hey all, I just found out that the F2A can be used to send other multiboot images than the loader software, because the loader software is in the linker software, uncompressed :D
The Multiboot image is located around 0xA2A61 in when you open it with a hex editor. Currently, I have not been able to find out how big the image is, but it *could* give us some kind of clue about how to use the software to send multiboot images, just like EZ flash.
Maybe someone could even write a program that inputted the MB file into the .exe, that would be pretty easy...
Also, someone could write a "listening" program that listened to the REG_SI or one of the other link ports, as it could give us a lot of information about the architecture of the linker.

Just a untested thought (my linker is broken).


Lord Graga

#9092 - SimonB - Mon Jul 28, 2003 12:52 pm

Are you saying the "Run *.mb" option doesn't work for you? because in my opinion just using that would be the best way to solve this ;)

Edit: you would have to use 3.1 for this...

#9102 - tepples - Mon Jul 28, 2003 3:45 pm

I'm considering whether to recommend the F2A linker. Can "Run *.mb" work from the command line, such as in a development environment's "run" script? Or does the user have to manually move his mouse pointer to a displayed button every single time?
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#9145 - Lord Graga - Tue Jul 29, 2003 8:29 am

Ohh, silly me!
* LordGraga slaps himself :P
I didn't notice that the new release had that function, since the older versions worked fine for me :P

#9402 - loading - Sun Aug 03, 2003 11:14 pm

would someone bother to explain how that run mb works? because i somewhat can't get it to work --- don't know if i am using bad mb images... they run in no$gba color, though