SunOS 4.x boot disk layout

Jules Richardson julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Mar 27 17:14:47 CST 2005


On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 18:01 -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> >> Yes, if the filesystem really is a SunOS 4.* filesystem, it will be
> >> big-endian.
> > Even a SunOS 4.* filesystem written by a Sun 386i?
> 
> Woo, I forgot about the roadrunner.  A 386i-written filesystem will
> quite likely be little-endian.  

Linux certainly treats the two as seperate - with a 'sun' UFS type for
normal machines and a 'sunx86' type for the 386i, so I suspect you're
right there.

cheers

J.



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