4.2 Boot Process

The ChorusOS 3.2 netboot utility, to load and boot ChorusOS system images, has been replaced by bootMonitor in the ChorusOS 4.0 operating system. Whereas netboot is only available for Intel platforms, and designed to be run from diskette, bootMonitor is available on all platforms and can be run from diskette or flash memory.

The file format of system images has changed from SVR5 in the ChorusOS 3.2 operating system to ELF in the ChorusOS 4.0 operating system. System images created in the ChorusOS 3.2 operating system are not designed to boot in the ChorusOS 4.0 operating system.

See the bootMonitor(1CC) man page, and the appropriate book in the ChorusOS 4.0 Target Family Documentation Collection for further information.