Subject: Re: Problems booting: no file system for sd0
To: Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@twofifty.com>
From: Erik E. Fair <fair@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/09/2004 17:05:35
Sun OpenBoot Firmware (IEEE 1275) is pretty smart. It is basically a
Forth interpreter with some standard program code and a device tree
database already loaded. It tells us what devices are present and
therefore what devices to attach device drivers to, and loads up our
primary boot block.
The boot path is interpreted by that, in addition to the NetBSD boot
code, and the NetBSD kernel.
Erik <fair@netbsd.org>