Re: boot-big.fs too big

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 07:51:48PM -0300, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 06:13:52PM -0300, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > trying to create my own NetBSD/i386 iso image with mkisofs, noticed that 
> > > boot-big.fs is way too big to emulate a floppy and that's why I had to 
> > > use the -no-emul-boot to create the image properly.
> > > 
> > > However, when I try to boot, I get the following message:
> > > 
> > > "Please remove disk 2, insert disk 1, and press return..."
> > > 
> > > I used to create NetBSD iso images before without problems, following 
> > > the good documentation found at:
> > > 
> > > http://www.netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html
> > > 
> > > But from a long time, I didn't need to do this, and maybe I should 
> > > have missed something. Is this documentation up to date with 5.0?
> > 
> > No. netbsd-5 uses the no-emulation boot method.
> 
> Yes, I used -no-emul-boot, but using this option gives me the "error" 
> described above. What about the documentation at 
> http://www.netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html? Is it still valid?

for i386, no. You now have to use makefs and installboot; see
src/distrib/cdrom and src/distrib/i386/cdroms/ for the details.

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