Subject: Re: Bootable CD?
To: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/10/1996 01:17:01
Jeremy Cooper wrote:
>
> /boot uses the library routines in /sys/lib/libsa to interpret the
> filesystem handed to it by OBP. Currently it only understands NFS and
> UFS because there are no ISO9660 routines in the standalone library.
The SunOS CDs are *UFS*, so it would not be an issue. The only question
would be if the NetBSD boot can load from "cd0d", or sd(0,6,d) or
whatever. It should work, but might need a little massaging.
Disklabel a "scratch" disk with a bogus geometry (that of a CD), and
create the filesystems. Set the SCSI ID to 6, and try to boot it.
"might work" :) The sector size is probably the issue.
-Andrew