[syslinux] Non x86 architectures

Stephen Brown sbrown7 at umbc.edu
Fri Apr 4 07:44:30 PST 2003


On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Andrew Wray wrote:

> I'm looking for advice on network boot loaders for non x86 systems, in
> particular PPC-64, IA64 and AMD-64.

Well, AMD-64 is also known as x86-64, and is backwards compatible with
32 bit machine code, but I don't remember whether or not 32-bit code can
load a 64-bit OS.  You might want to read a few of the whitepapers at:
http://www.x86-64.org/

Steve Brown
sbrown7 at umbc.edu




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