On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:35:36AM +0900, ITOH Yasufumi wrote:
> jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de writes:
> 
> > An other issue with mkboot / LIF tools poped up while talking to chuq:
> 	:
> > The first cylinder must not be used by any partition (except "c") to
> > leave room for boot.lif. So the hp700 disklabel(8) needs to know about
> > the LIF format. Currently writing a disklabel destroys the LIF image. I
> > think it would be best to wait for the new LIF tools and then sort out
> > the disklabel problems. 
> 
> Another solution is to use a first-stage boot loader that fits in
> normal 8KB boot block area of FFS.
> 
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/itohy/hp700-sdboot-20031216.shar.gz
> 
> I'm not sure which way is to go.

the 8k first-stage loader sounds better to me.

-Chuck