On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 07:04:21PM -0600, david l goodrich wrote:

 > from the faq at http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sgimips/faq.html :
 > 
 > *  Then prepare a second hard disk with NetBSD's FFS and disklabel. You
 > then tell the kernel to use root/swap on the second disk. The firmware
 > can't currently boot the kernel from an FFS filesystem, though, and
 > you'll need to boot that via the net for now. 
 > 
 > ... so you /always/ have to netboot the machine?  even after the OS is
 > installed?

I think that's a little out of date ... there is a disk boot block now.

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