Re: Changing disk image boot options without root privileges

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Subject: Re: Changing disk image boot options without root privileges
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 20:53:08 +0900

> How is the image made bootable in an unprivileged build ?
> The same can probably be used to change the boot option.

installboot(8) against a single raw ffs partition, then
MBR and swap etc. for the whole image are concatenated by cat(1):
 https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/common/bootimage/Makefile.bootimage#371

(yes, it's so ugly, but no other better suggestion in PR/45153)

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Izumi Tsutsui

References:
- Re: Changing disk image boot options without root privileges
  - From: Manuel Bouyer

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