Subject: Re: disklabel in mac68k port.
To: Takeshi Shibagaki <ie9t-sbgk@asahi-net.or.jp>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/24/2000 13:01:27
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Takeshi Shibagaki wrote:

> fb> Assuming that you can build a kernel that supports ATA, you could try
> fb> to hardwire the kernel to root on the ata disk, changing
> fb> config          netbsd  root on ? type ?
> fb> to 
> fb> config          netbsd root on wd0c type ffs
> fb> get this kernel into the Booter folder, and use the booter's "Boot
> fb> from a MacOS file" option.
> 
> This method was included in my idea, maybe go well. But it's strange for
> me that kernel exists on MacOS(HFS), and I don't like not GENERIC kernel.
> I like to separate NetBSD partition from MacOS partition.

Yeah, but it looks like the only hope, for now. Even if you fix the
disklabel with some other tool, the Booter doesn't support booting
from ATA yet, does it?


Frederick