Subject: Re: distrib/hp700 bits
To: None <port-hp700@NetBSD.org>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: port-hp700
Date: 05/21/2005 16:55:04
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 08:03:50AM -0700, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> >I don't know much about making CD boot images, and even less about CD 
> >boot
> >for HP boxes, so can someone else look into that?
> 
> If it's anything like hp300, then dumping that LIF image to CD should 
> "just work".  AFAICT, they didn't have any provisions for booting from 
> CD-ROM in the BootROM, so they just treated CDs as any other SCSI HD.  
> At least, that's what the HPUKES 9.10 CDs looked like to me.

ah, cool.

could someone please try this out?  it looks like it should work,
the openbsd cdboot appears to be the normal bootloader code with
the non-CD bits removed.

-Chuck