Re: Autoconf-ing mklifboot
Chuck Silvers <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hp700 |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:35:36AM +0900, ITOH Yasufumi wrote: > [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. the 8k first-stage loader sounds better to me. -Chuck