Subject: making a bootable CD?
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/13/2006 17:13:36
I've looked at src/etc/etc.sparc/Makefile for hints on making a bootable 
CD, but my tester told me I wasn't successful. Does anyone know what to 
change on the following to make a bootable CD:

  * make an ISO image with mkisofs that has the 3.0/sparc release
    (in a "sparc" directory); no bootloader, no kernel ("netbsd")
    nothing else in the ISO
  * sh 3.0's src/distrib/common/sunbootcd.sh my.iso boot.fs boot.fs boot.fs,
    where boot.fs is an uncompressed version of ftp.NetBSD.org's
    /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.0/sparc/installation/bootfs/boot.fs.gz
    no SUNLABEL variable was set, and the system's native version of
    that tool was (probably) used.

Would creating a cross-tool "(nb)sunlabel" command change something?
Does anything have to be on the CD, like some /boot loader or a /netbsd 
kernel?

FWIW, this is for a sparcpkg.cd that is bootable and has the 3.0/sparc 
install sets and a set of packages.


  - Hubert