Subject: Re: Booting NetBSD/arm26 from a hard drive
To: Ian Fry <Ian.Fry@sophos.com>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm26
Date: 06/08/2001 12:42:41
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Ian Fry wrote:

> Once I get that far, I'd like to get the machine to boot from it's internal
> disk, can I use a mixed RISC OS and NetBSD setup, or would I have to dedicate
> the disk to NetBSD?

It should be possible to split it, though I've never got that far.  You
basically tell HFORM the disc is smaller than it is, then get NetBSD to
use the rest.  If you can find the arm32 prep.RISCOS file, that explains
the process in more detail.

> PS It looks like the mailing list subscribe link on the port-arm26 homepage
> is wrong - it tried to subscribe you to the port-arm32 list! I didn't notice
> this until yesterday, despite having subscribed a couple of weeks ago.

Oh dear.  I'll fix it.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>