Subject: Re: Prep bootloader
To: None <port-prep@netbsd.org>
From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
List: port-prep
Date: 03/08/2006 09:52:28
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:04:12 -0700 (MST)
Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net> wrote:

> We can essentially ship a script which will generate a
> bootimage from /netbsd, and write it out to the root drive.
What about a bootloader that reads /netbsd out of the root file system?
This would avoid the partition table fsck entirely.

> if we fix the booted-device stuff so the machine knows where it was
> booted from
Oh, yes, that would be great. How does the firmware tell the kernel
about the boot device? IIRC I didn't find that in the residual data.
--=20


tsch=FC=DF,
       Jochen

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