bouyer@antioche.eu.org wrote:

> > > Is the 3.1 iso (from pub/NetBSD/iso/3.1) bootable on
> > > sgimips ?
> > 
> > Probably not, they seem raw iso images without sgivolhdr.
> > See recent port-sgimips archives.
> 
> OK, so is it expected that a sgimips bootable iso image can't be mounted on
> anything but sgimips ?

Yes, cd9660 fs in the image (which has sgivolhdr) is at some offset
beyond the sgi volume, so it can't be mounted unless correct disklabel
info is provided (as mbrlabel(8) does for MBR labeled disks without
BSD disklabel).

I wonder if it's possible to make sgivolhdr less than 8KB
and put a primary loader into there...
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Izumi Tsutsui