Subject: Re: Bootable port-sparc64 CD-ROM image?
To: Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 04/04/2001 12:38:28
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Brian Chase wrote:

: Just a quick question, is the port-sparc64 ISO image under
: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/iso/ bootable?  The README under that
: directory doesn't mention it, but then the Wasabi distribution does claim
: that their CD-ROMs boot on supported NetBSD/sparc64 systems.

The Wasabi inserts and doc went to press before it was discovered that the
boot image used for sparc64 does not work properly from CD-ROM (it was named
"ramdisk" but is actually a type of miniroot).

So, at the moment, *no* CD-ROMs boot on sparc64.

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