Re: Autoconf-ing mklifboot
Jochen Kunz <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hp700 |
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On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:35:36 +0900 (JST) [email protected] (ITOH Yasufumi) wrote: > 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'll have a look at it. With restructuring the LIF tools and hp700 MD disklabel parts it looks like a good occation to do a general cleanup of the hp700 boot code. Is there somwhere documentation about how a disklabel is build / laid out, how boot code interfaces with FFS, ... (This is the first time I mess around with disklabel and FFS internas.) Is this 8 kB boot block area of FFS simply the first 8 kB of a partition / slice? I.e. the first 8 kB of a FFS is never touched by FFS code? > I'm not sure which way is to go. I am unsure too. I wasn't able to find any documentation about what a hp700 machines expects where on disk too boot. -- tschüß, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/