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Re: booting the Gdium



On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:22:53PM +0200, bao.mengqian%gmail.com@localhost 
wrote:
> >
> Then I change my hypothesis to NetBSD not recognizing its rootfs when it is
> installed on a non-BSD partition type. Since I prepared the "boot disk" on a
> Linux system, I was unable to create the BSD-style partitions hierarchy which
> is native to BSD. My next move is to find a way to create a flash drive which
> holds one ext2-formatted, Linux-style partition  to hold the kernel (for PMON)
> and besides that the BSD-style partitions which will hold the rootfs. 

The install kernel should allow you to do that, but you'll have to do it by
hand. there's no support in sysinst for that yet.

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