Subject: Re: UPDATE: various changes on INSTALL and iso generation
To: None <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 03/06/2007 08:12:08
bouyer@antioche.eu.org wrote:

> I've a problem with the sgimips iso: it can't be mounted as iso9660 fs.
> I don't understand what's the difference with the code in distrib/cdrom
> or etc/etc.sgimips. From what I understood, this builds a SGI volume
> header, and adds the iso image as is after the volume header.
> The 3.1 sgimips iso image can be mounted on i386, yet the one I generate
> can't. On the other hand, sgivol can grook the iso I generated but can't grook
> the one from 3.1.

FYI, I've just fixed distrib/cdrom/Makefile:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2007/03/04/0016.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2007/03/04/0017.html

> Is the 3.1 iso (from pub/NetBSD/iso/3.1) bootable on
> sgimips ?

Probably not, they seem raw iso images without sgivolhdr.
See recent port-sgimips archives.
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Izumi Tsutsui