Subject: Re: UPDATE: various changes on INSTALL and iso generation
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 03/06/2007 11:27:44
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:12:08AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> 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

Yes, I did see those and I think I got them right in my Makefiles.

> > 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.

OK, so is it expected that a sgimips bootable iso image can't be mounted on
anything but sgimips ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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