Has anyone even tested the cdhdtape recently? Considering the error message Ray is getting boot can't find the kernel. Is the standard boot even supposed to be able to locate the kernel if it is in a USTAR archive?
Since we are dealing with what seems to be the same boot as on a hd I just assumed that the cdhdtape image was a regular UFS file system image. Perhaps someone can create such an image with the same files that are included in the cdhdtape image and test it.
On Tru64 the stand alone system restore tapes and cd's contains USTAR archives just like the cdhdtape image but the Tru64 bootloader does know how to handle USTAR archives to allow loading of the kernel. I'm not sure that's the case with the file Ray has tried to use.
I can't test this for the moment since my box no longer is running NetBSD. I gave that up due to too many bugs that made NetBSD unstable on CS20 systems when running multiprocessor kernels...
Cheers,
Anders
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On Thu, 28 May 2009, Rhialto wrote:
On Thu 28 May 2009 at 09:55:23 +0200, Anders Hogrelius wrote:Since the cdhdtape image is a UFS disk image you should be able to mount the cdrom and read the contents.Isn't it an USTAR volume, i.e. more or less a tar file? /NetBSD-5.0/alpha/installation/diskimage$ tar tvf cdhdtape tar: Cannot identify format. Searching... -r--r--r-- 1 611 125 41640 Apr 26 08:54 boot -rw-r--r-- 1 611 125 0 Apr 26 08:54 USTAR.volsize.23420 -rw-r--r-- 1 611 125 3723267 Apr 26 08:54 netbsd tar: ustar vol 1, 3 files, 3776512 bytes read, 0 bytes written in 1 secs (3776512 bytes/sec) -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- You author it, and I'll reader it. \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- Cetero censeo "authored" delendum esse.