Translations:Handbook:MIPS/Blocks/Disks/36/en

On Cobalt machines, the BOOTROM expects to see a MS-DOS MBR, so partitioning the drive is relatively straightforward -- in fact, it's done the same way as done for an Intel x86 machine. However there are some things you need to bear in mind.
 * Cobalt firmware will expect to be a Linux partition formatted EXT2 Revision 0. EXT2 Revision 1 partitions will NOT WORK! (The Cobalt BOOTROM only understands EXT2r0)
 * The above said partition must contain a gzipped ELF image, vmlinux.gz in the root of that partition, which it loads as the kernel