On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 11:19:30AM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:36:54PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > 
> > Once, I dd'ed a boot floppy image to a IDE disk from a i386, installed it
> > in a powermac 5xxx (I don't remember the exact model) and it booted.
> > I could then do the install from there.
> > This should work with SCSI disks too, I guess.
> 
> hmmmmm, how much do i need on the scsi disk to get the system booted and
> running?  just the bootblocks?  the kernel currently lives on the IDE disk,
> can i get to it after bootloader is running?  or do i need to have a copy of
> the kernel on the scsi disk?

If you can't boot from IDE, the kernel needs to be on SCSI too. The bootblocks
use openfirmware to load the kernel.

> 
> i'm going to try the whole system install thing, i'm concerned about endian
> issues with the FS though since i'll be building the "disk" on a little endian
> pc and trying to use it on a big endian mac.  maybe i should get an alpha
> running with netbsd to do this with. :)

Alpha is little endian too. You need a sparc, or sgimips :)

But it shouldn't be a problem to do pc -> mac, build.sh can do it for the
boot floppies so the tools exists.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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