Subject: Re: [OT] Making bootable disk for diskless SPARC
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Ken Nakata <nakata@sequent.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/29/2000 17:25:52
der Mouse wrote:
> 
> > No, I just wondered if I could create NetBSD/SPARC bootable disk with
> > Mac.
> 
> I'd say this is almost certainly possible, without even too much pain.
> 
> First step: use sunlabel or moral equivalent to label the disk with a
> Sun-compatible label (and install the label, a la mbrlabel).  I haven't
> updated it for the new sticky label stuff, so it may need a little
> ioctl tweaking.
> 
> Second step: make the filesystem and populate it.  Since mac68k is the
> same endianness as the SPARC, this is very straightforward: newfs the
> partition(s) and unpack the set(s).  You don't even need FFS_EI in your
> kernel. :-)

Hm, I must be missing something here.  How do you mount the partition(s)
on mac68k?  NetBSD/mac68k understands nothing but MacOS partition table
or MS-DOS mbr partition table (at least on a Zip disk).  Are you saying
sunlabel and MacOS partition can coexist on a single disk?

Ken