On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:00:06PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> 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).

OK. So a multi-arch CD with bootable sgimips can't work on anything
but sgimips anyway, I guess. We'll have to correct the "multi-cd3"
set I guess.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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