Re: boot-big.fs too big

Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 06:13:52PM -0300, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> trying to create my own NetBSD/i386 iso image with mkisofs, noticed that 
> boot-big.fs is way too big to emulate a floppy and that's why I had to 
> use the -no-emul-boot to create the image properly.
> 
> However, when I try to boot, I get the following message:
> 
> "Please remove disk 2, insert disk 1, and press return..."
> 
> I used to create NetBSD iso images before without problems, following 
> the good documentation found at:
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html
> 
> But from a long time, I didn't need to do this, and maybe I should 
> have missed something. Is this documentation up to date with 5.0?

No. netbsd-5 uses the no-emulation boot method.

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Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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