Re: Netbooting a blue and white G3

[Michael <macallan%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Hello,

On Oct 17, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:

> > 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.

You're right, my memory is wrong. I forgot that we had to leave some  
blocks free before partition a and mark c as 'boot' in the disklabel.

have fun
Michael


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin)

iQEVAwUBStpJJMpnzkX8Yg2nAQKelAf+LaDCWc3IISo8S03vIYLtwo38S+U8k6uM
sPUUlwBjZT2KHAzj4KhP6qfCK3AJd2ClvfBnylHnGZisjUzOin/hzINvBXg8gvwA
OlU84+u48Ggu0seEATYYXwxL14o8J+h0oyBaEm7CFNeEIt4mmhkVJC55ZIFJLyrl
/GNpMSoNxyTuD3c4B3w4jHvG0nTsVtnPSjixuVHEA37/JCDY54D2XFZw6zsq6kmg
sMNRUPKcri3ErFIuxxEb6rSg7XUYctIm9vnZ+VElRU0xZly6coz+R0zsoZiitw5L
BWMyL+cQDLns/4h7IIjkxYVFjgC+DGcY0+k5924WsO0oAB4X/5OWEA==
=UYjs
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----