Subject: Re: booting my image
To: matthew sporleder <msporleder@gmail.com>
From: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org>
List: tech-embed
Date: 05/14/2006 23:00:18
On Sun, 14 May 2006 17:56:02 -0400
"matthew sporleder" <msporleder@gmail.com> wrote:

> After I created my crunchgen image and mdsetimage-ed it into my
> kernel, how do I boot it?
> 
> I included /boot in my list and ran installboot, but Qemu can't boot
> it as a floppy image.  Any tips?  Maybe this isn't the best way to
> test an image, since I don't really have anything called 'netbsd'?
> 

Here you can read about some of the logic behind building an bootable image:
http://wiki.onetbsd.org/index.php/How_to_build_your_own_NetBSD_LiveCD
The other howto I wrote covering much about building a CF image:
http://www.yazzy.org/docs/NetBSD/netbsd-on-cf.txt
It does not cover crunching as I prefer using dynamically linked libaries.

Cheers,
Marcin.