Re: Autoconf-ing mklifboot

[email protected] writes:

> An other issue with mkboot / LIF tools poped up while talking to chuq:
	:
> The first cylinder must not be used by any partition (except "c") to
> leave room for boot.lif. So the hp700 disklabel(8) needs to know about
> the LIF format. Currently writing a disklabel destroys the LIF image. I
> think it would be best to wait for the new LIF tools and then sort out
> the disklabel problems. 

Another solution is to use a first-stage boot loader that fits in
normal 8KB boot block area of FFS.

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/itohy/hp700-sdboot-20031216.shar.gz

I'm not sure which way is to go.
-- 
ITOH Yasufumi