Booting Linux on Malta off the hard disk

After the Debian installation on Malta had succeeded, its YAMON firmware was set to boot the Linux kernel off the hard disk, the latter being partitioned as follows (fdisk(1)'s output):

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x882d882d

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *          63       32129       16033+  da  Non-FS data
/dev/hda2           32130   154850534    77409202+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3       154850535   156296384      722925   82  Linux swap / Solaris

In order to do that, one could just load an SREC-formatted Linux kernel image using the command `load', then dump the resulting memory range into the first hard drive partition (/dev/hda1) using the command `disk write hda 0x3f 0x3fff 0x80100000'. Then, the $start environment variable can be set to the value `disk read hda 0x3f 0x3fff 0x80100000; go $entry root=/dev/hda2 quiet', where $entry stands for the corresponding entry point for the given kernel and can be obtained from output of `load', in particular.