Re: Netbooting a blue and white G3

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> We actually do that on hp300 - the 'bootblock' is a rudimentary LIF  
> filesystem with just enough information to let the boot PROM load the  
> loader ( LIF has a 'this is a bootable operating system file' file  
> attribute ) which then in turn loads the kernel. It doesn't even live  
> in its own partition - it's using free space in the first few blocks  
> of an ffs filesystem.

No. hp300 LIF (including loader) needs its own "boot" partition.
(and it's a bit annoying)

src/usr.sbin/installboot/arch/hp300.c checks FS_BOOT in disklabel
for it.

> Last time I checked the whole thing was about  
> 55kB.
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Izumi Tsutsui