Subject: Re: new stand/netboot too big
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.east-arlington.ma.us>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/20/1997 12:31:05
Bill Sommerfeld writes:
> > Is the new netboot code ready for primetime?  
> 
> I'm not sure the new boot code is.
> 
> I attempted to build Perry's SSTO stuff yesterday (to replicate the
> problem with it failing on 4M systems), and (in addition to the fixes
> I committed to biosmem.S), I had trouble with installboot, at least as
> it's used by the ssto makefiles..  it appears to want to write to the
> raw device of a mounted filesystem, and when it opens up the raw
> device for writing it gets EBUSY (because the corresponding block
> device has a mounted filesystem on it).  I had to hack it to unmount
> the filesystem at the right place, which leads me to wonder how this
> ever worked for him..

Dunno -- I just tried it again and it worked Yet Again.

Very strange.

Perry