Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > Well, it's a little different from the other bootxx_* programs in that it 
> > ONLY works on CD-ROM drives.
> >
> > That said, it's probably appropriate to call it bootxx_cd9660

I'll consider renaming it.

> 
> Next issue is that it seems to ask for a root/boot device when following 
> the instructions in 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-install/2005/06/22/0013.html, which is 
> inconvenient. I wonder if that can be worked around somehow?
> 
> What I've done for testing was (on -current):
>   * cd /src/sys/arch/i386/stand/cdboot && make && cp obj/cdboot /tmp
>   * cd /src/sys/distrib/i386/floppies/ramdisk-big/obj/work
>   * mv /tmp/cdboot .
>   * cp /src/sys/arch/i386/compile/obj/GENERIC/netbsd .
>   * cp /src/obj/destdir/usr/mdec/boot .
>   * mkisofs -o ../work.iso -J -r -no-boot-emul -b cdboot .
>   * qemu -cdrom ../work.iso -boot d
> 
> What happened is:
> 
>  	boot device: <unknown>
>  	root device:
> 
> After entering "cd0a" (and cd0b for dump, and "generic" for file system) 
> here, it takes quite a while (~1 minute) to proceed - it's probably going 
> through all the filesystem types supported, which are quite a few in 
> GENERIC (maybe i should have taken an INSTALL kernel? :).
> 
> Next, it asks:
> 
>  	init path (default /sbin/init):
> 
> Pressing RETURN creates mfs /dev and then drops into sysinst.
> 
> So if we could get rid of these extra key presses, we could probably 
> easily start shuffling src/distrib/i386 around (oh no wait, we need 
> 'makefs -t cd9660' with boot-support first!!! David? :))

Yeah, it's a known problem I want to resolve ASAP. ;-) I need to look into
the floppy install media first.

Jun-Young