Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/installboot

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:26:31PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, David Young wrote:
> >Modified Files:
> >     src/usr.sbin/installboot: installboot.8
> >
> >Log Message:
> >Add an example of using installboot(8) and makefs(8) with bootxx_cd9660
> >to create a bootable CD-ROM for an i386 host with a serial console.
> >
> >
> >To generate a diff of this commit:
> >cvs rdiff -r1.44 -r1.45 src/usr.sbin/installboot/installboot.8
> 
> Cool, thanks for this!
> Can we tweak it a bit to say
> 
> .Dl Ic makefs -t cd9660 -o 'bootimage=i386;cdrom/bootxx,no-emul-boot' \
>        boot.iso cdrom
> 
> i.e. add single quotes to protect the ";" plus add the right path to the 
> bootxx file? That seems to work better for me. Not that I could boot it in 
> qemu or bochs... :(

I will add single quotes.  The path (cdrom/bootxx) is not right, since
the preceding commands are:

.Dl Ic cp /usr/mdec/bootxx_cd9660 bootxx
.Dl Ic installboot -t raw -o console=com0,speed=19200 bootxx \
        /usr/mdec/bootxx_cd9660

Dave

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