Subject: Re: Custom boot floppy
To: Rose, Brian <Brian.Rose@icn.siemens.com>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/20/2002 08:55:21
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Rose, Brian wrote:
> I looked over the /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies directory to see if it
> yielded any clues. In the ramdisk-small/Makefile there is the line
> "IMAGE=ramdisk-${BOOTMODEL}.fs" where BOOTMODEL is "small". Where is this
> ramdisk-small.fs? Is it generated or do I need to put it in some location?
> If it is generated, how is it generated? How is it linked to a kernel build?
Look at usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/common/Makefile.ramdisk and
usr/src/distrib/common/Makefile.crunch
usr/src/distrib/common/Makefile.makedev
usr/src/distrib/common/Makefile.image
Also look at the other files like the buildfloppies.sh
(It seems like this changed a lot between 1.5.x and 1.6.)
Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/